Over the last few years, governments and development
agencies have provided access to information and
communication technology (ICT) with the intention to
improve living conditions in underserved communities
around the world. Unfortunately, how the ICT tools
are used and the information they convey is
exploited have not received enough attention.
Through a holistic-multiple case study design, this
book describes how individuals living in six rural
communities in the northern Peruvian Andes use (or
not) computers. An interpretive analysis informed by
grounded theory reveals the...