Towards Universal Telecom Access for Rural and Remote Communities

["Irfan Khan" <khania@super.net.pk>]

[from http://www.sdnp.undp.org/observatory/ ]


The objectives of Universal Access policies and programs focus on 
social and economic development of rural and remote areas. The 
provision of telephone lines and Internet services is a means to 
accelerate and support social and economic development. Objectives 
may also be tied directly to government goals for decentralization of 
governance to regional and district levels in order to provide more 
effective social service delivery and more effective local decision-
making. Decentralization requires that front line service delivery 
agents and local government officials have access to affordable and 
effective communication and information sharing tools. (Source: 
Telecommons http://www.telecommons.com/ )

Read full story at http://www.telecommons.com/reports.cfm?itemid=260