nowadays, empowerment causes the development of rural regions, because rural development is realized by changing and evolution of the knowledge, skill and attitude of rural people. for the simple reason that after accepting the new and newer ways, their thoughts will be changed. as a result, rural people will have a new attitude toward agricultural activities and other economic activities in ru...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can do more than benefit teaching and learning in rural schools; it can also be a catalytic and transformative tool that induces knowledge reformation and production amongst learners in an informed society. In this paper our focus is on how ICT education practices in rural schools in marginalized communities can be transformed to develop knowledge ...

Social imaging is regarded as a technology to identify and represent social behaviors. By using wearable devices and mixed reality technology, we aim at supporting people who have difficulty making facial expressions and interacting with other people, to express feelings and to act among people. In this paper, we introduce the overview of social imaging technologies and its application to empow...

This cross sectional descriptive study aimed to describe factors influencing contraceptive behavior among women aged 15-49 years, seeking induced abortion in the rural and the urban regions of Nepal. A total of 385 women (92.1% completion rate), 195 from the urban region and 190 from the rural region were analyzed. The results showed that the overall contraception use was 69.4% in the urban reg...

The Asian and Pacific region is home for over 60 percent of the world’s population and more than 70 percent of the region’s population lives in rural areas and primarily involved in agriculture. Integrating and empowering rural women by promoting women’s entrepreneurship in green cooperatives has been recognized as an important approach to alleviate rural poverty and enhancing sustainable rural...

Micro-finance has developed as a need-based program for empowering women and reducing poverty part of the development paradigm. One most successful strategies improving lives underprivileged via increased economic opportunity is microfinance. To reduce unemployment end poverty, microfinance programs like one discussed in this article attempt to help people start small businesses earning an inco...

This paper presents a solution to address the technological challenges to support the needs of people with intellectual disabilities towards an independent life, in the scope of the CISVI research project, which proposes a new research methodology to deal with the needs of disabled and social communities.

here are currently at least 85 million rural-urban migrants in the mainland China. These migrants face great health risks, yet are not recognised or covered by any medical care scheme. This paper demonstrates that the key issue for migrants’ health is not their social characteristics such as low income or the lack of health awareness, as most literature has emphasised, but lies in the instituti...

purpose: the purpose of this paper is to evaluate to what extent the construction of common and individual biogas plants can answer the fuel needs of rural people or families. methodology: the present study with descriptive - analytical method, examines the fuel needs of the rural people and its supply by biogas from livestock waste. findings: the primary outcome of the proportion of rural popu...