This book has created a useful platform for global readers at large. It brings a total learning situation; learner autonomy and learner contiguity as well as integrating diverse areas of knowledge with the new paradigm. It is indeed a valuable book in terms of its [content]s, which have a wide range of coverage to help readers know the past, present and future development of ICT.
– Dr. Roger Haw, Founder cum Chairman of ASRIA, Malaysia
[Empowering Marginal Communities with Information Networking] acts as a resource kit for policy formulation in the hope of creating a more evenly distributed knowledge society. The book may be of use to librarians, museum officials, and information studies faculty. For researchers studying the impact of ICTs in marginal communities, it offers an essential collection of guidelines, best practices, and case studies developed in the past ten years.
– Thomas Lannon, New York Public Library, in College and Research Libraries Volume 67, Number 4, July 2006
Rahman's collection is a valuable resource on the role of ICTs and of networking in adult learning and community empowerment, and offers insights into a range of innovative approaches. For anyone interessting in the field of information and ICTs as facilitators of social inclusion, this is a worthy volume.
– Lan Anh Tran, Victoria University of Wellington, Online Information Review, Vol. 30 No. 3, 2006