Benefit on Investment: An Answer to Why Should Invest for Public Access to ICTs
The paper introduces a new concept Benefit on Investment (BOD for measuring benefit of public access to ICTs, particularly telecentres. It brings in the benefit received by the community along with the profit received by the investor. The paper elaborates methodology of measuring Benefit on Investment (BOD and addressed the missing public goods dimension of Return on Investment (ROD. The paper also discusses the application of the methodology in four public access venues branded as Pallitathya Kendra in remote rural areas of Bangladesh. The result shows that benefit of public access to ICTs is several times higher than investment which proves the worth of investing in it. The research also shows that variation of BOI depends on a number of factors among them the most important is quality of infomediary.
BOI ROI ICT4D sustainabilityitelecentre
Ananya Raihan Masum Billah Forhad Uddin
D.Net (Development Research Network), Bangladesh D.Net (Development Research Network) , Bangladesh
国际会议
2009 World Congress on ICT for Development(2009世界信息通信与发展大会)
北京
英文
305-313
2009-09-10（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）