"My child will be respected": Parental perspectives on computers in rural india

2007 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, ICTD 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Pal, Joyojeet ^a   Lakshmanan, Meera ^b   Toyama, Kentaro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Consultant on technology and education ^*  (India)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Developing nations; Human factors; Rural areas; Technology social factors

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER LITERACY; DEVELOPING NATIONS; HIGHER EDUCATION; HUMAN FACTORS; KARNATAKA; LEARNING CENTER; MODERN TECHNOLOGIES; PERCEIVED VALUE; PUBLIC SCHOOLS; QUALITATIVE STUDY; RELATIVE VALUE; SOCIAL MOBILITY; SOUTH INDIA; SYMBOLIC VALUE;

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; EDUCATION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; RURAL AREAS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TECHNOLOGY;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 67650567990     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTD.2007.4937402     Document Type: Conference Paper

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