TY  - JOUR
T1  - Factors Influencing Rural Community Empowerment to Achieve Telecentres’ Ownership
AU - Samah, Bahaman Abu AU - Badsar, Mohammad 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 8
IS  - 5
SP  - 461
EP  - 465
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2013.461.465
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2013.461.465
KW  - Empowerment
KW  -telecentres` ownership
KW  -interpersonal empowerment
KW  -interactional empowerment
KW  -collective empowerment
AB  - Empowering the target groups of Medan InfoDesa (MID) telecentres 
  who are local community members, including youth, schools, farmers, disabled 
  people and women requires paying attention to the component of ownership and 
  empowerment for different groups at the same time. The present conceptual lens 
  using Zimmerman Theory of empowerment and Hur empowerment models identified 
  the components of empowerment as interpersonal and interactional which are act 
  as exogenous factors. Further, collective empowerment found to be a mediating 
  factor on the relationships of aforementioned exogenous factors and telecentre 
  ownership as endogenous variable. The theoretical contribution of present study 
  is on designing a conceptual framework that extends the knowledge on the components 
  of empowerment in the context of telecentre ownership as a behavioral component 
  of empowerment as telecentres ownership. Application of present conceptual lens 
  is beneficial to various groups that are directly or indirectly involved in 
  the planning, execution and evaluation of ICT projects as well as enhancing 
  individual empowerment in rural community. Further, recommendations on how to 
  apply the provided framework in the future research have been presented.
ER  -