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Financial vs. social sustainability of telecentres: mutual exclusion or mutual reinforcement?

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posted on 2017-05-24, 09:22 authored by Silvia Masiero
The debate on development-led telecentre projects revolves around the concept of sustainability. Although it is accepted that telecentre sustainability has both a financial and a social dimension, the relationship between these two sides is sometimes axiomatically defined as one of mutual exclusion. Through the case study of the Akshaya Telecentre Project in Kerala, southern India, we problematize this logic: we individuate a set of mechanisms through which the social dimension of telecentre sustainability feeds the financial one, rather than obstructing it. As such, we propose a new paradigm for telecentre studies, in which social and financial sustainability are interlinked by mutual reinforcement.

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School

  • Business and Economics

Department

  • Business

Published in

The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries

Volume

45

Issue

3

Pages

1 - 23 (24)

Citation

MASIERO, S., 2011. Financial vs. social sustainability of telecentres: mutual exclusion or mutual reinforcement? Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 45 (3), pp.1-23.

Publisher

City University of Hong Kong

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2011

ISSN

1681-4835

Language

  • en