Identifying IT-based rural development infrastructures： Strategic alignment approach

Information technology （IT） has been able to facilitate the rural development through empowering and integrating the accessibility of the villagers （cottagers） to the available knowledge and information and the opportunities to different extents. The success of IT approach in rural development requires some initial efforts to prepare applying IT in order to achieve it. Awareness of IT-based rural development infrastructures and subsequently preparation of required infrastructures are one of the most important steps towards delivering the development program. Considering the importance of this subject, in this paper, we have tried to identify the IT-based rural development infrastructures, using the ideas of experts in IT and rural development across the Iran country. The data analysis of 171 respondents with T-student test showed that the factors of social-cultural, organizational-managerial, technical-telecommunication and legal-legitimate are the IT-based infrastructures of rural development. Successful provision of these elements depends on the existence of strategic alignment approach and focuses on the balanced maturity of the infrastructures.

Identifying IT-based rural development infrastructures： Strategic alignment approach

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