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Expanding the frontiers of rural access
Introduction
| Initiative Name: | ICT and Poverty |
| Author: | Janet Kwami |
| Country: | Ghana [GH] |
| Theme: | Agriculture | Education | Health | Livelihood opportunities |
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The Story
Background and context:
Janet Kwami writes on findings from an ethnographic research on communication, poverty and development in two villages in Twifo Praso district in Ghana.
It looked particularly at the kinds of information and communication technologies (ICTs) that are used in these villages and how they affect individuals living in these communities and their livelihoods. The focus of the investigation was based on the ICT Center in the district and the opportunities it presents to the communities in that district. The research was part of the findings from a four-country study on ICT and Poverty carried out in Ghana, South Africa, Jamaica and India and funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID).
The two villages that were studied were at varying distances from the district capital, Twifo Praso, 70kms north of the capital of Ghana’s Central Region -- Cape Coast.
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