THE FOCUS ON ‘RURAL DIGITIZATION’: FROM INDIAN PERSPECTIVE

Authors

  • KOTAKONDA BALAJI BABU Research Scholar, Department of Commerce & Management, KL Business School, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Green Fields, Vaddeswaram, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh Author
  • LANDA RAMESH Associate Professor, Department Of Commerce & Management, KL Business School, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Green Fields, Vaddeswaram, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.61841/g1tttf65

Keywords:

digitization, digital literacy, semi-literate, illiterate, internet

Abstract

“Digital India” is a flagship program taken prestigiously by the Indian Union government in order to empower and transform India into digital economy and knowledge society. This program will be succeeding not only with the act of digitization of urban areas in the country, but focusing on the rural empowerment with digital synchronization. It is possible but not easy as we discuss. This paper encompasses the methods by which rural empowerment is possible. This article mainly focuses on establishment of internet facilitation in remote rural areas, so that the people living there could be able to grab the incredible advantages with it. Along with the internet facilitation other aspects of rural digitization are discussed in suggestions.

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Published

23.05.2020

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Vol. 24 No. 10 (2020): 24 (10) 2020

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BABU, K. B., & RAMESH, L. (2020). THE FOCUS ON ‘RURAL DIGITIZATION’: FROM INDIAN PERSPECTIVE . International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, 24(10), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.61841/g1tttf65