00948pab a2200181 454500 180718b2001 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d ICTs in rural poverty alleviation 2001 p.917-20 17 Mar Social structures are crucial in determining who is able to access any technology and use it beneficially. While making new information and communication technologies (ICTs) cheap will make them more accessible to the poor, there will be other factors which determine their impact. The current low penetration of ICTs is a reflection of the digital divide in overcoming which there is no way to bypass a confrontation of low educational levels, which itself is linked to landlessness. - Reproduced Information technology - India Rural poor - India Poverty - India Poverty Economic and Political Weekly 48136 48136 48136 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 36, Issue no: 11 AR48564 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR