Abstract

Drawn from a four-month field study of seven ICTD projects in India, this webtext reports a subset of findings about how communication modes, media, and devices affected the ability of projects to meet their development goals, such as improving the livelihoods of subsistence farmers. This research identified (1) communication-related factors that contributed positively (i.e., bridges) and negatively (i.e., barriers) to meeting development goals and (2) interrelations among those bridges and barriers.