Title :
The path analysis of “last mile” in rural information
Author :
Hu, Xinli ; Ma, Lianjie
Author_Institution :
Dept. of e-Gov., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China
Abstract :
Rural Information is an objective requirement of building new socialist countryside, a necessary prerequisite for the farmers´ income increasing, agricultural efficiency, and rural development. Whether “Last mile” problem could well resolve is directly related to success or failure of information technology in rural areas. Resolving rural information “last mile” problem can help to narrow the urban-rural “information gap”, and eliminate the rural areas “information island.” In resolving the real issue of “last mile”, there have many bottlenecks. In this paper we try to farm individual PC+ rural information station+ bundled system of telephone, SMS, mobile phones + IPTV and other means and ways to solve the problem of rural information “last mile”.
Keywords :
agriculture; town and country planning; agricultural efficiency; last mile problem; rural areas information island; rural development; rural information; socialist countryside; urban-rural information gap; Construction industry; IPTV; Weather forecasting; Rural information; last mile; the path;
Conference_Titel :
Computer and Communication Technologies in Agriculture Engineering (CCTAE), 2010 International Conference On
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6944-4
DOI :
10.1109/CCTAE.2010.5543276