Distance Education via SMS Technology in Rural Bangladesh
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3757485 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yusuf Mahbubul Islam (0000-0002-4113-5409, Daffodil International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh), Kenneth O Doyle (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 87-96 |
| Publication date | 2008-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002764208321343 |
| OpenAlex | W2112422942 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 14 |
Cell-phone SMS-Short Message Service-is helping bridge the Digital Divide in developing countries around the world. Beginning in Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries on Earth, and now extending into many other Third World countries, SMS offers synchronous and asynchronous interactive communication in situations where previously there was no communication at all, as between people in jungle villages and government or nongovernmental organization offices in major cities. SMS offers a wide variety of applications from public health to e-commerce. This article describes recent developments mainly in data collection and distance education
Asynchronous communication · Business · Developing country · Digital divide · Distance education · Economic growth · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Information and Communications Technology · Internet privacy · Jungle · Phone · Political science · Public relations · Service (business) · Short Message Service · Telecommunications · Variety (cybernetics) · World Wide Web · Computer Science · ICT in Developing Communities · Marketing · Mobile Learning in Education · Wireless Networks and Protocols
| Citations per year | 0.19 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2022 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |