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Scaling up rural electronic governance initiatives

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Delivering Electronic Public Services (EPS) to rural areas presents scale-up challenges, such as the cost for extending access to public infrastructure and for providing social services to low density population. Rural business centers implemented in partnership with the public sector is a new and possible sustainable model for addressing these challenges. This paper presents some issues to be considered when planning and implementing rural business centers offering EPS.

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ICEGOV '07: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Theory and practice of electronic governance
December 2007
471 pages
ISBN:9781595938220
DOI:10.1145/1328057
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  1. business model
  2. electronic government
  3. rural areas

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