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    Building a knowledge society: the relationship between information and development in Bangladesh

    15610_Iqbal full 2004.pdf (1.440Mb)
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    Authors
    Iqbal, MD Nasim
    Date
    2004
    Supervisor
    Assoc Prof. Bob Pokrant
    Dr. Margaret Exon
    Type
    Thesis
    Award
    PhD
    
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    Department of Media and Information
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/313
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    Abstract

    The objective of the research is to identify how information can influence development in the developing countries, especially in Bangladesh. A variety of information gathering stages were undertaken including documentary analysis, interviews with key officials, structured interviews with individuals living in rural and urban slum areas and focus groups. Officials at the central planning level responsible for community development and information services in Bangladesh were interviewed to ascertain their views of the relation of information and development in Bangladesh. At the grassroots level both information providers and users were interviewed to collect information relating to the impact of information services on development in rural and poor urban areas of Bangladesh. Structured interviews which allowed for quantitative analysis were undertaken in four remote villages and two poor urban areas. Analysis of the data collected has led to the development of a model for community information centres which might become central to information dissemination and provide a focus for information policy in Bangladesh.

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