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These are project updates made by members of the Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) at the University of Washington Information School. TASCHA is responsible for the implementation for the Global Impact Study.
Five new in-depth studies approved
Five new project in-depth studies will investigate relationships between public access ICTs and mobile phone use, community-level impacts of public access ICTs, the influence of public access ICTs on information ecologies, and the costs and benefits of public access ICTs.
Continue reading...Survey of public access ICT venue users and operators
December 17, 2009
We are in the final stages of developing surveys of public access ICT venue users and operators. Through this process we are finding out how difficult it is to design a survey that captures all we want to know about public access venues and users and to keep the survey under 45 minutes. Developing the surveys has been a process of trade-offs to select questions for the survey instruments.
Continue reading...A tool to count public access ICT venues in multiple countries
December 15, 2009
Although there have been isolated attempts at counting individual public access ICT venues in specific countries, there has not been a concerted effort to capture data for multiple venue types across multiple countries. Our first research goal has therefore been to carry out an inventory of all public access venues in the project countries — Bangladesh, Chile, Lithuania, Brazil, and the Philippines. This will enable us to quantify the public access ICT phenomenon and thus put our subsequent research findings in an appropriate context.
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