Rural Telecenter Impact Assessments and the Political Economy of ICT of Development (ICT4D) - eScholarship

Rural Telecenter Impact Assessments and the Political Economy of ICT for Development (ICT4D) BRIE Working Paper 164 January 2005 ©Copyright 2005 by the authors Jessica Rothenberg-Aalami Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE) University of California, Berkeley 2234 Piedmont Avenue Berkeley, CA 94720 jra3@berkeley.edu Joyojeet Pal City and Regional Planning University of California, Berkeley 228 Wurster Hall Berkeley, CA 94720 joyojeet@berkeley.edu * Authors wish to thank John Zysman of BRIE, AnnaLee Saxenian of City and Regional Planning, Eric Brewer of Computer Science, Kellie McElhaney of the Haas School of Business, and Mahad Ibrahim, School of Information Management and Systems at UC Berkeley, for collaborative efforts, helpful comments and discussions. Thanks to David Dowall for guidance on the approaches to project evaluation. Authors acknowledge funding from the National Science Foundation.