Paper Info
Title
Barriers And Reforms For Promoting Icts In Rural Areas Of Pakistan
Abstract
Pakistan is a developing country and peoples of more than 50,000 areas, cover 64% of the whole population, belong to rural. ICTs are the essence of this modern age but unfortunately, the services of ICTs have failed to trickle down the rural masses of Pakistan. We believe that the inadequacy of infrastructure, i.e., behavioral, cultural and social barriers, is debarring ICTs to strengthen its roots in the rural areas. The most vital task is to wipe out this digital division to change the patterns of thoughts and behaviors of the masses of rural areas. In Pakistan many efforts are in the pipeline to reveal the concrete paybacks of ICTs for rural population. The need of the hour is to do so in a way that makes economic reimbursements. This paper deals with the potential barriers barring ICTs in far wide areas of the Pakistan, various fruitful steps taken by the Government of Pakistan to introduce ICT reforms, various policies framed for boosting ICTs and computer literacy in rural areas.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-319-07635-5_38
DESIGN, USER EXPERIENCE, AND USABILITY: USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN FOR EVERYDAY LIFE APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES, PT III
Keywords
Field
DocType
Digital divide, IT infrastructure, ICT reforms, Computer literacy
Population,Economic growth,Digital divide,Developing country,Computer literacy,Rural area,Information technology management,Information and Communications Technology,Business,Government
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
8519
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Aneela Abbas100.68
Mubbashar Hussain200.34
Muddesar Iqbal300.34
Sidra Arshad400.34
Saqib Rasool532.79
Muhammad Shafiq622.07
Wasif Ali710.70
Nadeem Yaqub800.34