Social capacity making refers to a set of assets within a community which can include the resources needed to accomplish particular tasks or awareness, expertise, and leadership for an event. The objective of this paper is to analyze the role of information and communic
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Social capacity making refers to a set of assets within a community which can include the resources needed to accomplish particular tasks or awareness, expertise, and leadership for an event. The objective of this paper is to analyze the role of information and communication technology on social capacity making in rural areas of Meshkin Shahr. This study was developmental and also, descriptive and analytical research in terms of the purpose and nature. Population of this study included all villages with Rural Information and Communication (ICT) offices of Meshkin Shahr. For estimation of sample size, Cochran sampling method was used with 95% confidence level. In this research, data collection method was used to answer the research questions in both documentary (secondary data) and survey (primary data) and the tools used in the survey method were questionnaire and interview. Validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by experts. Guidance study in the same area as the population was done with 30 questionnaires and the reliability of the various sections of the questionnaire was 0.71-0.84 by data obtained and using the special Cronbach Alpha formula in SPSSsoftware. Finally, the results of the research showed that there is a significant relationship between all variables of research and enjoying the information and communication technology services, except for the variables of social cohesion and social services. Also, practical suggestions were presented according to the results of the research.
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