TY  - JOUR
T1  - Rural Community Digital Technology Connectedness: Does ICT in
Rural Area Contributes to Rural Development in Malaysia?
AU - Noor, Marhaini Mohd 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 13
IS  - 2
SP  - 316
EP  - 322
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2018.316.322
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2018.316.322
KW  - ICT
KW  -rural development
KW  -telecentre
KW  -community informatics theory
KW  -social capital and quality of rural
KW  -life
KW  -digital
AB  - This research emphasises on telecentres community digital technology connectedness in rural
Malaysia to tackle the issue on digital divide. The telecentre program main objective was to increase rural
communities ICT knowledge and skills as well as to enhance rural access to Information and Communications
Technologies (ICTs). Thus, this research has revised various studies on community informatics and previous
studies of social capital in regard to, “Does ICT in rural area contributes to rural development in Malaysia?”
From the assessment of the telecentre program, this research has provided the theoretical lens on community
informatics and social capital theories. The research gap is to investigate if there is an improvement in human
and social capital as an outcome of the telecentre. Therefore improvement in digital knowledge and skills in rural
Malaysia and perceived effectiveness of the telecentre program were the contribution of this research. While
the telecentre program in Malaysia is improving, the use of ICT for rural development is also improving, hence,
the outcome is improve on quality of rural life. As a result, this study makes a contribution to rural development
with reference to local rural communities in Malaysia with proposed model to develop.
ER  -