Overview 1 SECTION I OVERVIEW 1. ICT and Rural Development in India 3 Sukhvinder Kaur Multani 2. ICT for Rural Community Development 10 Ekanath Khatiwada 3. Information and Communication Technologies21 (ICT) and Sustainable Development Amrita Singh 4.The Role of e-Panchayats 33 B P Gupta 5.Developing IT Networks in Rural India 42 P Vijcrya Kumar, N Appa Rao and L Pratap Reddy 6. Communication and Information Technology in Literacy for Rural Development 51 B S Vasudeva Rao 7. Rural Entrepreneur Development Programme in Information and Communication Technology (REDPRINT) 62 Ramosubramanian O B 8.Effect of Mobile Telephony on Empowering Rural Communities in Developing Countries 69 Chaitali Sinha SECTION II COUNTRY EXPERIENCES 9. Warana: The Case of an Indian Rural Community Adopting ICT 89 Si'mone Cecchini and Monica Raina 10. Selected Success Stories on Agricultural Information System 99 Sahdev Singh 11. The Diffusion of the Internet and Rural Development . 132 Zhaojinqiu, Hao Xiaoming and Indrajit Banerjee 12. Bridging Digital Divide in Marginalized Areas: A Focus on IT Policy, Planning and Implementation Issues in Malaysia 151 Sharifah Mariam Syed Mohammed Allwbshi 13. Wiring Sub-Saharan Africa for Development 167 Tokunbo Ojo 14.Rural Schools as Regional Centres of e-learning and the Management of Digital Knowledge: The Case of Newfoundland and Labrador 188 Ken Stevens 15. Impact of the Insertion of Modern Information and Communication Technologies in Brazilian Rural Communities 202 Marco A Figueiredo, Mauro A Cdmara and Roberta E Sabin Index 221