Abstract: This paper focuses on the effectiveness and efficiency of IT initiatives in rural areas where topology creates isolation to developmental activities. A village is selected for the study and information is gathered through interviews of village dwellers. These collected responses are then analyzed and a gaps model is proposed.

Kamal Kumar Ghanshala, Durgesh Pant and Jatin Pandey, “A Gaps Approach to Access the Efficiency and Effectiveness of IT-Initiatives In Rural Areas: case study of Samalta, a village in the central Himalayan Region of India” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 4(2), 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2013.040237

@article{Ghanshala2013,
title = {A Gaps Approach to Access the Efficiency and Effectiveness of IT-Initiatives In Rural Areas: case study of Samalta, a village in the central Himalayan Region of India},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2013.040237},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2013.040237},
year = {2013},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {4},
number = {2},
author = {Kamal Kumar Ghanshala and Durgesh Pant and Jatin Pandey}
}