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Rural Knowledge Centers: Partners in Promoting a New ODL Paradigm

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/5654/
 
Title Rural Knowledge Centers: Partners in Promoting a New ODL Paradigm
 
Creator Dixit, S
Dileepkumar, G
Balaji, V
Borkar, S
Takwale, R
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description It is called a Rural Knowledge Center (RKC), Village Information Center (VIC) or a Community Learning and Information Center (CLIC). It is a new institution in the Indian rural milieu. It is a one-stop center of the village where community members can be assisted with information ranging from how to manage pod borer infestation in their pigeonpea crop to what are the government schemes currently in operation his/her village. These are increasingly seen as vehicles of capacity building and educational change in rural India. Home to nearly 65% of the country
 
Date 2006
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/5654/1/Rural_Knowledge_Centers_2006.pdf
Dixit, S and Dileepkumar, G and Balaji, V and Borkar, S and Takwale, R (2006) Rural Knowledge Centers: Partners in Promoting a New ODL Paradigm. In: The Fourth PCF Conference, 30 October - 3 November 2006, Ocho Rios, Jamaica.