Towards a Smart Community Centre: SEIDET Digital Village

Phahlamohlaka, Jackie; Dlamini, Zama; Mnisi, Thami; Mashiane, Thulani; Malinga, Linda

doi:10.1007/978-3-662-44208-1_10

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“…In this way, all the people could be included in positive (but also negative) global trends. A problem of using digital technologies in the rural space has been identified by Phahlamohlaka et al (2014): Individual technologies are often applied separately while a complex approach could be much more efficient. Of course, new sources of exclusion could arise which would concern the people without access, knowledge or any interest to use the internet.…”

Section: Smart Village (Concept Definition Theory)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Smart Village and Sustainability. Southern Moravia Case Study

Vaishar

Šťastná

2019

European Countryside

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The paper is aimed at an attempt to define a smart village in the Czech conditions. It argues that the principles of smart villages are very similar to the concept of sustainability. The analysis deals with preventing rural exclusion, promoting digital technologies for the management of the rural infrastructure, teleworking in rural areas and using ICT for participation and governance. This approach is documented in the case of the South-Moravian Region. It was concluded that it was not so much coverage or accessibility of digital technology that was the main barrier of more intensive use of the smart village concept but rather the lower qualification level and conservatism of rural population is. It is suggested that more attention should be paid to increasing the digital literacy of rural people.

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Section: Smart Village (Concept Definition Theory)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Smart Village and Sustainability. Southern Moravia Case Study

Vaishar

Šťastná

2019

European Countryside

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“…SEIDET brought about a community response that far exceeded the expectations of project developers in a large part because the need for the program was widely perceived by local citizens in Siyabuswa and the two satellite communities of KwaMhlanga and Vaalbank (Phahlamohlaka et al, 2014). The SEIDET programs' success was a result of program developers empowering citizens from within the local communities to serve as volunteer tutors and designing a community-based evaluation system.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Shortly after the SEIDET facility expanded to include the two new sites, Mpumalanga leaders began discussing plans for a much larger roll-out of similar facilities in other rural areas of the region. The expansion of the program to additional sites became known as the Sustainable Development Initiative (SDI) (Phahlamohlaka, Dlamini, Mnisi, Mashiane, & Malinga, 2014). SDI targeted other rural communities within the Mpumalanga region to serve as ICT development hubs similar to the SEIDET facility in Siyabuswa.…”

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confidence: 99%

An Analysis of Digital Inclusion Projects: Three Crucial Factors and Four Key Components

Smith

2015

JITE:Research

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This paper provides an in-depth analysis into two case studies aimed at addressing the digital divide in two developing countries. A detailed description is provided for each case study along with an analysis of how successful the two projects were at addressing the digital divide in Siyabuswa, South Africa and Ennis, Ireland. The two case studies were both community-based ICT projects in rural areas of their respective countries. However, citizens in Siyabuswa had to continuously work hard to obtain new resources for a central hub which serviced the entire community, while citizens in Ennis were awarded a grant with an abundance of ICT technology including an Internet connection in every home. A conceptual framework for analyzing the success of digital inclusion projects was developed through a comprehensive literature review. This paper will identify the three factors (value, sustainability, and scalability) and four key components (digital equity, excellence, opportunity, and empowerment) that make up the framework, analyze each of the two case studies based on the framework, and explore future implications for addressing gaps in ICT access through the implementation of digital inclusion projects.

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“…A smart rural is not only relying its' growth on agricultural commodities, but also multidevelopment activities on the basis of agriculture/farming, for instance entrepreneurship, technology, business, energy, tourism (Anderson et al, 2017;Fennell et al, 2018;Prinsloo et al, 2017;Shukla, 2016). A smart rural is associated with both community as agricultural producers and community as entrepreneurs, innovators, selfempowered and resilient people (McManus et al, 2012;Phahlamohlaka et al, 2014;Ristianti, 2016). Smart village is developed by incorporating multi-components of smart environment, mobility, economy, living, governance and people (Santoso et al,n.d.,p.…”

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Why We Should Talk? The Potentials of Community Dialog in Grounding an Integrated Rural Development

Suryani

Soedarso

Endarko

et al. 2020

J. Asian Rural Stud.

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Rural development is a social process. It involves local community in all stages of development. Community dialog is a means for facilitating community involvement in determining a development direction, potential development plan and development sus-tainability in the future. Frequently, local community is considered as the development target. This position puts them just being development watchers, spectators, silent and passive recipients. Moreover, these silent roles make them remain unempowered since they do not know how to determine their future, how to take part in collective decision and feel being neglected. This study examines potentials of community involvement in dialog. A qualitative research paradigm is adopted. The data are collected byrecording, transcribing and analyzing community dialog at Klagen, Nganjuk, Jawa Timur. The study finds that community dialog offers considerable potentials. The first potential of community dialog is generating local community commitment, awareness, sense of belongingness and supportive character to build their own homeland. These positive development psychological states,characters and ethos are soft human dimensions which can be critical drivers in rural development. The second is creation of local knowledge and scientific knowledge joint enabling innovation and collective learning process. This joint-knowledge allows the combination of local wisdom and scientific insight. The third is building shared or collective development vision and plan. This plan and vision allow the development prioritizing process and development of rural strength, potential competitive advantage and resource building. The fourth is expanding rural networking and exercising rural people capacity to build wider internal and external social relationship.

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Towards a Smart Community Centre: SEIDET Digital Village

Cited by 13 publications

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Smart Village and Sustainability. Southern Moravia Case Study

Smart Village and Sustainability. Southern Moravia Case Study

An Analysis of Digital Inclusion Projects: Three Crucial Factors and Four Key Components

Why We Should Talk? The Potentials of Community Dialog in Grounding an Integrated Rural Development

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