Publication: Fostering a Digitally Inclusive Aging Society in China : The Potential of Public Libraries
Date
2014-07-08
ISSN
Published
2014-07-08
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
The World Bank has been supporting
this policythrough theprogram China Rural Information and
Communications: Technical Assistance on Design and Impact
Evaluation, which aims to support the government make
decisions about potential scaling up of innovative ICT pilot
projects and to generate and disseminate knowledge about the
impacts of ICT in rural China. Three activities were
undertakenwith a focus on a trio of provinces (Guizhou,
Jilin, and Shandong): (a) a demand survey to assess rural
ICT access and attitudes; (b) a library study including
scoping the status of ICT use in rural libraries; and (c) a
limited impact evaluation to examine how ICT interventions
have affected rural users.
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Citation
“World Bank. 2014. Fostering a Digitally Inclusive Aging Society in China : The Potential of Public Libraries. © Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19979 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”