Local Context and Advanced Technology Use by Small, Independent Manufacturers in Rural Areas

2002 ◽  
Vol 84 (5) ◽  
pp. 1237-1245 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. McGranahan
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Local Context

scholarly journals When Peace and Quiet Is Not Enough: Place-Shaping and the Role of Leaders in Sustainability and Quality of Life in Rural Estonia and Latvia

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 259
Author(s):  
Joanna Storie ◽  
Edith Chenault ◽  
Mart Külvik ◽  
Simon Bell
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Place Identity ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Sustainable Change ◽  
Fresh Food

Estonian and Latvian rural inhabitants enjoy many factors enhancing the quality of life, such as the peace and quiet of the countryside, fresh food and rural activities. However, these benefits are insufficient to overcome poor employment prospects in rural areas. Place-shaping practices have transformative powers that are instrumental in achieving sustainable change in communities. The process of reappreciating local landscapes creates memories of positive associations with symbolic meaning; it helps inhabitants to strengthen their sense of place identity and re-grounds their appreciation into a specific local context. Sustainable rural futures require conditions where inhabitants feel listened to and that are responsive to their needs. They also require inspirational leaders to facilitate change and create networks of opportunities, linking inhabitants to the outside world and resources. Leaders may play an important role of re-positioning local communities for the future, creating new experiences or new opportunities, which further feeds re-appreciation of place and enhances quality of life. In order to understand the main issues of the rural areas, two villages with active rural projects in Estonia and Latvia were selected to analyse the role that leaders play in the development of the area and the barriers to a more sustainable approach.

Safe Arrivals: Responding to the Local Context in a Training Program for Birth Attendants in Cambodia

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-85
Author(s):  
Lois V. McKellar ◽  
Kevin Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Skilled Birth Attendant ◽  
World Health ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Birth Attendants ◽  
Quality Assurance Process ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Assurance Process

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that every woman should have a skilled birth attendant (SBA) attend her birth; however, until this ideal is met, traditional birth attendants (TBA) continue to provide care to women, particularly in rural areas of countries such as Cambodia. The lack of congruence between an ideal and reality has caused difficulty for policy makers and governments. In 2007, The 2h Project, an Australian-based, nongovernment organization in partnership with a local Cambodian organization, “Smile of World,” commenced the “Safe Arrivals” project, providing annual training for SBAs and TBAs in the rural provinces of Cambodia. Following implementation of this project, feedback was collected through a questionnaire undertaken by interviews with participants. This was part of a quality assurance process to further develop training in line with WHO recommendations and to consider the cultural context and respond to local knowledge. Over a 2-year period, 240 birth attendants were interviewed regarding their role and practice. Specifically, through the responses to the questionnaires, several cultural practices were identified that have informed training focus and resource development. More broadly, it was evident that TBAs remain a valuable resource for women, acknowledging their social and cultural role in childbirth.

scholarly journals Research on Cultivation Ways of New-Type Professional Farmers under the Background of Rural Revitalization Strategy

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 248
Author(s):  
Shijie Chen
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Training Model ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Rural Revitalization ◽  
Improvement Measures ◽  
New Type

<p>Due to the focus on solving the issues concerning agriculture, rural areas and peasantry, the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed a rural revitalization strategy. In this era, new-type professional farmers came into being. They helped the development of agriculture and accelerated the process of rural revitalization. However, there are still some obvious problems which urgently need to take corresponding improvement measures in the cultivation and development of new-type professional farmers. To solve these problems, it is required to set a premium on basic education in rural areas and promote advanced technology; cultivate correct professional values and improve the social status of farmers; adhere to the training model that combines theory with practice and enrich teaching methods; pay attention to the targeted training of talents at different levels and form reasonable teaching structures; coordinate agricultural development planning and develop regional characteristic agriculture.</p>

scholarly journals Availability and use of technology for e-learning: to what extent do these impact Bangladeshi university students? A cross-sectional study

F1000Research ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 1285
Author(s):  
Md. Kamrul Hasan ◽  
Tajrin Tahrin Tonmon ◽  
Humayun Kabir ◽  
Sumaya Binte Masud ◽  
Md. Abeed Hasan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Outcome Variable ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Learning Stress

Background: E-learning is making education globally and conveniently attainable with the deliverance of advanced technology. However, this mode of academia is still not commonly practiced locally. Thus, the study aimed to investigate technological availability, usability, and association to university students' perceived stress due to e-learning curriculum. Methods: A cross-sectional study commenced among Bangladeshi university students enrolled in the e-learning curriculum. A total of 1162 university students were included. The main explanatory variables were related to the availability of technology and the use of technology. The outcome variable was perceived e-learning stress. In statistical analysis, p-value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant with a 95% confidence interval. Results: In this study, lack of technological availability and usability were associated with higher level of perceived e-learning stress. Being female, living in rural areas, and outside of Dhaka division were found the associated factors in the lack of technological availability and usability. Conclusions: A significant association between the availability and usability of technology with perceived e-learning stress was observed. Thus, measures should be taken to initialize e-learning adaptivity by increasing technological growth across the nation, considering educational preparedness for future catastrophes.

scholarly journals Developing indicators of age-friendly neighbourhood environments for urban and rural communities across 20 low-, middle-, and high-income countries

2022 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily J. Rugel ◽  
Clara K. Chow ◽  
Daniel J. Corsi ◽  
Perry Hystad ◽  
Sumathy Rangarajan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Disease Risk ◽  
High Income ◽  
Community Level ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
World Health ◽  
Mixed Data ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Traffic Lights

Abstract Background By 2050, the global population of adults 60 + will reach 2.1 billion, surging fastest in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). In response, the World Health Organization (WHO) has developed indicators of age-friendly urban environments, but these criteria have been challenging to apply in rural areas and LMIC. This study fills this gap by adapting the WHO indicators to such settings and assessing variation in their availability by community-level urbanness and country-level income. Methods We used data from the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study’s environmental-assessment tools, which integrated systematic social observation and ecometrics to reliably capture community-level environmental features associated with cardiovascular-disease risk factors. The results of a scoping review guided selection of 18 individual indicators across six distinct domains, with data available for 496 communities in 20 countries, including 382 communities (77%) in LMIC. Finally, we used both factor analysis of mixed data (FAMD) and multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) approaches to describe relationships between indicators and domains, as well as detailing the extent to which these relationships held true within groups defined by urbanness and income. Results Together, the results of the FAMD and MTMM approaches indicated substantial variation in the relationship of individual indicators to each other and to broader domains, arguing against the development of an overall score and extending prior evidence demonstrating the need to adapt the WHO framework to the local context. Communities in high-income countries generally ranked higher across the set of indicators, but regular connections to neighbouring towns via bus (95%) and train access (76%) were most common in low-income countries. The greatest amount of variation by urbanness was seen in the number of streetscape-greenery elements (33 such elements in rural areas vs. 55 in urban), presence of traffic lights (18% vs. 67%), and home-internet availability (25% vs. 54%). Conclusions This study indicates the extent to which environmental supports for healthy ageing may be less readily available to older adults residing in rural areas and LMIC and augments calls to tailor WHO’s existing indicators to a broader range of communities in order to achieve a critical aspect of distributional equity in an ageing world.

The Cultivation of Technology Usage Among Potential Users of ICT

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 31-43
Author(s):  
Nimmy Maria Joseph ◽  
P E Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Basic Requirement ◽  
Technology Usage ◽  
Information And Communication

The purpose of establishing information and communication technologies (ICTs) in rural areas is for development. Nevertheless, the increasing presence of the “digital divide” indicates that there are setbacks in accomplishing of this progress. A deeper understanding about the categorization of users and non-users of technologies is needed as there is an implicit element called ‘potential users' among the non-users category that decides ICT usage. In this article, the analysis of demographics and psychographics of a person plays a critical role in identifying potential users and converting them to innovators. The reasons why people do and do not use technology and categorization of users and non-users is the perfect criteria to analyse potential users among so called non-users. This article discusses the categorization of ICT users and non-users and the barriers of potential users for technology use. Thus, measures for transforming potential users to innovators are described. The need for digital freedom is found to be the basic requirement of potential users.

Rural Technology Adoption and Use Model in Rural Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-55
Author(s):  
Ida Sèmévo Tognisse ◽  
Jules Degila
Keyword(s):  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Mobile Telephone ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Rural Africa

Mobile telephony networks have seen a high rate of adoption worldwide in recent years. However, these networks do not exist everywhere, and even where they are, their adoption is lagging. Especially in uncovered rural areas, it is difficult to predict the technology's acceptance and adoption factors. This study deals with the usage gap of mobile telephone networks and attempts in a methodological approach based on structural equation modeling to prevent the telephone usage gap in rural Africa yet to be covered. To that purpose, the authors use a research model based on the technology acceptance model (TAM) and the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT). By combining these two models and incorporating the moderating effects of demographic variables such as age, gender, education, and experience of technology use, this paper has retained a model with the ability to determine how rural residents will accept and use future networks.

scholarly journals Tourism and Sport: Strategic Synergies to Enhance the Sustainable Development of a Local Context

2013 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Radicchi
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Nordic Walking ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Rural Districts ◽  
Local Resources ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Tourism Flows

Abstract In recent years sport has become a phenomenon of large dimensions and it is an important resource for the development of a local context (Hautbois, Desbordes, 2008; Maier, Weber, 1993; Weed, Bull, 2004). The combination of physical and sports practices within a natural environment (outdoor) broadens the range of activities that people can choose in their free time (nordic walking, hiking, rediscovering rural districts, walking and cycling in urban spaces, etc.). The demand of this kind of activities is continuously evolving. Sports tourism is a new opportunity for the development of tourism offer. Cities, regions, rural areas, etc. through the exploitation of local resources, vocations and specializations can promote a destination in terms of reputation and tourism flows.This research aims to stimulate a reflection on the role that the synergies between tourism and sport, combined with the use of resources, services and local products (cultural and artistic paths, local artefacts, wine tastings, etc.) may have for the development of a specific territory and its socio-economic environment.

Advanced Technology and Creative Magic: How Technology Use Shapes the Creativity-Innovation Process

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (1) ◽  
pp. 13851
Author(s):  
Pier Vittorio Mannucci ◽  
Colleen Cunningham ◽  
Hila Lifshitz-Assaf ◽  
Emily Truelove ◽  
Alentina Vardanyan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Technology Use ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Advanced Technology

scholarly journals Rural residents’ perspectives on a mHealth/personalized health coaching intervention (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Schoenberg
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Health Coaching ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
Rural Residents ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Personal Technology ◽  
Personalized Health

BACKGROUND Compared to national averages, rural Appalachians experience extremely elevated rates of premature morbidity and mortality. New opportunities, including approaches incorporating personal technology, may help improve lifestyles and overcome health inequities. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility and acceptability of a healthy lifestyle intervention, including an app originally designed for urban users. This program, Make Better Choices 2 (MBC2), consists of personalized health coaching, smartphone application, accelerometer, and financial incentives. METHODS We convened four focus groups and 16 key informant interviews with diverse community stakeholders to assess perspectives on this novel, evidence-based diet and physical activity intervention. Participants were shown a slide presentation and asked open-ended follow up questions. The focus group and key informant interview sessions were audiotaped, transcribed, and subjected to thematic analysis. RESULTS The Appalachian residents in our study expressed extensive enthusiasm for and consider mHealth interventions feasible for three reasons: (1) increased availability and use of personal technology in rural areas; (2) changing interaction patterns that encourage the use of personal technology (e.g., more individualism, less group activity); and (3) enthusiasm for new approaches (i.e., apps, behavioral incentives) to lifestyle improvement. While viewed as a feasible and acceptable overall, lack of healthy lifestyle awareness, habitual behavior, and financial constraints may challenge the success of mHealth lifestyle interventions in Appalachia. Finally, participants described several minor elements that require modification, including expanding the upper age inclusion, providing extra coaching on technology use, emphasizing personal and supportive connections, employing local coaches, and ensuring adequate educational content for the program. CONCLUSIONS Blending health coaching and new technologies is not only acceptable, but may be essential to reach vulnerable rural residents. CLINICALTRIAL n/a

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