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 Information Systems for rural communities
Content Management System for communities
CMS4C is a platform
for building
e-Communities where information is generated, stored and shared by the local rural communities.
Digital Divide’ describes the demarcation between the haves
and have-nots with respect to access to information and communication technologies
and its consequent role in ameliorating the general levels of the quality of
lives of people. Much of the problem of the digital divide is related not only
to availability and access to ICT, but also to the adaptability of these technologies
by the society and people across the world.
As in software engineering approach, importance is associated to a process that successfully meets the requirements of the customers and thereby satisfies him, we strongly feel that process is more important for the successful exploitation of new technologies by the rural people.
Process will act as an instrument to gather and analyse interdependencies of providing content to rural communities from various information sources. It would also support in selecting and setting of ICT applications according to the requirement of the beneficiaries.
The adaptability of ICT, especially in developing countries like India gets affected by several factors including that of local needs, cultural factors and language barriers, which compounds the problem.
Content Management System (CMS)
Information in the Internet media, in general is provided through websites. If the website provides new information regularly and upgrades its contents quite frequently, then they require an efficient system for
managing those contents. However maintaining and managing content would
become a cumbersome task after a point of time. So, people move on to automate these tasks using software. This software is generally called as the Content Management
System (CMS).
Content Management Systems are aimed at facilitating the process of uploading,
publishing, archiving, searching, and removing of the website’s content in an
easier and manageable way. They also facilitate to place the content online in
real-time without specialist help.
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