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The Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) is a technology that is rapidly being adopted for the poverty reduction strategies in developing countries. Different ICT initiatives including telecenters had remarkable achievement for rural development in recent years. Most of the telecenters are established in urban or semi-urban areas. The telecenter initiatives were started in Bangladesh very recently, and are growing very fast. This emergence led to the motivation of this study and the need to assess the cause behind the obstacles and opportunities. The study was supported by fieldwork during November 2006 to May 2007 on eight different models of telecenters in Bangladesh. A sample of 144 respondents was interviewed from all relevant groups. Three research methods were used for this study: survey interviews, focus group interviews, and an analysis of existing data. The aim of the study was to identify services provided by the telecenters, further the opportunities and cause behind the success or failure of the projects. The study was also intended to examine the issues affecting community uptake and appropriation of ICT services for livelihood development of rural communities, and reasons of lowadoption of ICT to the rural areas. This study was found five centers achieved their success by providing access to information to the rural communities, i.e. Village Information Center, ICT and Resource Centre for the Disabled, Amader Gram Giyan Kendra, Youth Community Multimedia Centre, and Amader Gram Health Center. The rest of centers were struggling for success and sustainability. This study found five centers achieved their success by providing access to information to the ruralcommunities. The major groups (36%) of the telecenter users were in the 20-30 years agegroup, 36% of the users were women, 40% of the respondents knew about the telecenterfrom friends and relatives while none got this information from government sources.40% of the respondents use the telecenters services at least once ...

Indonesian Government initiated the existence of telecenters in rural areas, known as PLIK, as a manifestation of universal service obligations. The presence of telecenter was expected to reduce the digital devide between rural and urban areas. The utilization of ICT infrastructure at telecenter became important matter because the digital devide dimensions was not limited about access and infrastructure only but also including utilization. Therefore, this study aims to understand the utilization of telecenter in rural area, especially at PLIK Bambanglipuro. This study was conducted using descriptive quantitative approach by distributing questionnaire to PLIK Bambanglipuro users. This study discovered that PLIK Bambanglipuro telecenter had been well utilized. The higest frequency activity at PLIK Bambangliporo was searching for informations and the second was communicating.Keywords: utilization, ict, telecenter, rural areas

Telecenter is a place where communities can access computers, the Internet, and other digital technologies to enable them to gather information, create, learn, and communicate with others. However, previous studies found that sustainability issues related to economic, political and institutional, social and technology is one of the major problem faced by the telecenter. Based on that problem this research is planning to design a possible solution on rural telecenters sustainability with the support of business intelligence (BI). The empirical study will be conducted through qualitative and quantitative method including interviews and observations with a range of stakeholders including ministry officers, telecenters managers and operators. Result from the data collection will be analyzed using causal modeling approach of SEM SmartPLS for the validity. The expected finding from this research is the Business Intelligent Requirement Model as a guild for sustainability of the rural telecenters.

Abstract: This report responds to an invitation from the Nordic Council of Ministers to map out Nordic initiatives within textiles as a pre-study to the initiation of a Nordic Roadmap for Sustainable Textiles in 2015. The work has been conducted by:SIFO - National Institute for Consumer Research (Norway)SFA - Sustainable Fashion Academy (Sweden)NFA - Nordic Fashion Association/nicefashion.org (Nordic)IVL - Swedish Environmental Research Institute (Sweden)CRI - Copenhagen Resource Institute (Denmark)Nordic Committee of Senior Officials for Environmental Affairs (EK-M) has been responsible for the funding of this project. The project@0394@03C3s steering committee consists of representatives from members from the working groups; Nordic Chemicals Group (NKG), the Nordic Waste Group (NAG) and the Group of sustainable consumption and production (SCP) and officers from the Environmental Protection Agency in Denmark. This steering Group is jointly responsible for the direction and decisions regarding the project. NAG has been coordinating the work. Coordinator of project has been Yvonne Augustsson from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency

Telecenter is a place where communities can access computers, the Internet, and other digital technologies to enable them to gather information, create, learn, and communicate with others. However, previous studies found that sustainability issues related to economic, political and institutional, social and technology is one of the major problem faced by the telecenter. Based on that problem, this research is planning to design a possible solution on rural telecenters sustainability with the support of business intelligence (BI). The empirical study will be conducted through the qualitative and quantitative method including interviews and observations with a range of stakeholders including ministry officers, telecenters managers and operators. Result from the data collection will be analyze using the causal modeling approach of SEM SmartPLS for the validity. The expected finding from this research is the Business Intelligent Requirement Model as a guild for sustainability of the rural telecenters.

The aim of this research is to enhance the quality of Telecenter service. Telecenter is a place for society to get any kinds of information based on technology, which has been established by the Government of East Java Province. One of the Telecenter's activities is to give technology information training to society for free. Unfortunately, almost all of the Telecenter in East Java have not been developed, even some of them are out of business. Therefore, it needs efforts to increase the quality of Telecenter service based on "Perception-Expectation Gap" by analyzing the gap between the perception of the staffs toward the service which they give, and the expectation of the society toward the service which they need. This research used descriptive qualitative method. The result of this research shows that there are four gaps between the perception of the staffs and the expectation of the society toward Telecenter service such as Gap I (knowledge gap), Gap III (delivery gap), Gap IV (communication gap), and Gap V (service gap). From those four gaps, there are five service aspects which have to be fixed to increase the service quality such as tangibility, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, and empathy.

The paper discusses sustainable development and its various definitions and applications. At present, sustainable development has become a regular component in development plans of governments and private enterprises. In order for sustainable development to be successful, it needs to implement a new set of global ethics that stresses the preservation of environment. As natural resources are inextricably linked with development, environmental planning is crucial in managing, maximizing, and securing the preservations of natural resources. Such objectives are seen in the framework of environmental planning. To ground and delimit the discussion, a historical survey and elucidation of environmental planning policies in the context of Philippine setting followed. Since there is a need to involve all sectors in the planning, decision-making, and utilization of natural resources, various points of intervention through people's initiatives emphasizing the 1991 Local Government Code (LGC) as a point of active intervention are discussed. Ultimately, the paper posits that planning, decision-making, and utilization of resources cannot stand on its own and must be strategically and carefully handled in order for its sound and relevant implementation.

Companies and businesses operate with the primary objectives of generating revenues and profits for themselves. In the present business scenario, apart from ensuring consumer welfare and achieving excellence in the competition, companies should be sensitive towards the well-being of the society at large and towards creating and maintaining a sustainable society and physical environment for the present and future generations. Both consumers and businesses should appreciate consumerism and environmentalism. Companies should be sensitive towards the adverse effects of business activities on the environment and realize their responsibilities towards the environment. They adopt a number of initiatives and sustainability visions to ensure creating a sustainable society for the present and future generations. The study will make all the stakeholders understand the importance of promoting sustainable marketing and their roles and responsibilities towards the society.