Investigating a Telecenter’contribution to Community Economic Development: An Experience of Buayan, Sabah Malaysia

eBuayan is one of the community telecentre established by ISITI-CoERI, is started to serve the community in 2009 with two main objectives to be reached, (i) to bridge digital divide between rural and urban inhabitants; and (ii) to promote economic development of the communities. The first objective is the prerequisite to achieve the second objective. A pertinent question is to what extent the telecentre was served as a catalyst for socio-economic development of concerning community? Investigating such question means the paper uncovered issues that constrained the the role of the telecentre as... Mehr ...