Fostering a Digitally Inclusive Aging Society in China : The Potential of Public Libraries

World Bank

Washington, DC

关键词: ACCESS POINT;    ACCESS POINTS;    ACCESS TO COMPUTERS;    ACCESS TO INFORMATION;    ACCESS TO THE INTERNET;   

RP-ID  :  88281

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The World Bank has been supportingthis policythrough theprogram China Rural Information andCommunications: Technical Assistance on Design and ImpactEvaluation, which aims to support the government makedecisions about potential scaling up of innovative ICT pilotprojects and to generate and disseminate knowledge about theimpacts of ICT in rural China. Three activities wereundertakenwith a focus on a trio of provinces (Guizhou,Jilin, and Shandong): (a) a demand survey to assess ruralICT access and attitudes; (b) a library study includingscoping the status of ICT use in rural libraries; and (c) alimited impact evaluation to examine how ICT interventionshave affected rural users.