Analysing a Rural Community's Reception of ICT in Ghana

Analysing a Rural Community's Reception of ICT in Ghana

John Pryor
ISBN13: 9781591405757|ISBN10: 1591405750|EISBN13: 9781591407911
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-575-7.ch003
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Pryor, John. "Analysing a Rural Community's Reception of ICT in Ghana." Encyclopedia of Developing Regional Communities with Information and Communication Technology, edited by Stewart Marshall, et al., IGI Global, 2005, pp. 7-15. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-575-7.ch003

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Pryor, J. (2005). Analysing a Rural Community's Reception of ICT in Ghana. In S. Marshall, W. Taylor, & X. Yu (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Developing Regional Communities with Information and Communication Technology (pp. 7-15). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-575-7.ch003

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Pryor, John. "Analysing a Rural Community's Reception of ICT in Ghana." In Encyclopedia of Developing Regional Communities with Information and Communication Technology, edited by Stewart Marshall, Wal Taylor, and Xinghuo Yu, 7-15. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2005. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-575-7.ch003

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Abstract

The Fiankoma Project was a development awareness (DA) initiative run by the Video Educational Trust aiming to link the small rural community of Fiankoma (Ghana) with people and institutions in Brighton UK through Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). People in both settings produced accounts of their lives using digital media that were turned into a Web site for cultural exchange and development education. A parallel research project Understandings of education in an African village: The impact of information and communication technologies1 studied the effects of the intervention on the Ghanaian community, seeking to gain the perspective of rural Africans on ICT and development and particularly education. Ethnographic and participatory methods enabled the research to achieve an unusual perspective on these issues (Thomas & Ahmed, 2004; Chambers, 2003).

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