Computerization in the rural area of the Latvia: looking back and going foward

Gailums, A., Latvia Univ. of Agriculture, Jelgava . Faculty of Information Technologies. Dept. of Computer Systems

Computerization in the rural area of the Latvia: looking back and going foward

2008

Gailums, A., Latvia Univ. of Agriculture, Jelgava (Latvia). Faculty of Information Technologies. Dept. of Computer Systems

The aim of this paper is to display the current situation and the development of the computerization in the rural area of the Latvia. At begin of the article given development of the computers in the world starting from Analytic machine to modern computing in nowadays. After World War II punch cards tabulating machines widely used in the computing stations and computing centres to process statistical and book-keeping information in the collective farms. In the early 1960s, first mainframes were installed in the state. The great enthusiasm ensued relating to the use of optimization techniques, particularly linear programming. Later the new type of machine minicomputers appeared. Its growth was a cultural, economic and technological phenomenon. The direction of computerization been known as Office Automatization. New era of the digitalization started with coming of the personal computers. The peasants purchased PC for different computing works at the farms. The second part of the article devoted the computerization in the rural area in nowadays. The people use the different software applications. Training of the inhabitants, teachers, unemployed people take place. The precision agriculture is coming in the farms in rural area. The emergence of the Internet brought the changes in the life of rural area. The new technologies of Internet appear in the rural area.

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Mots clés AGROVOC

aplicaciones del ordenador application des ordinateurs computer applications computer software information technology internet latvia letonia lettonie logiciel programas de ordenador recherche research rural areas technologie de l'information zonas rurales zone rurale

Informations bibliographiques

Editeur

Latvia University of Agriculture

Pagination

p. 56-61

D'autres materias

Tecnologia de la informacion; Investigacion

Langue

anglais

Note

Summary (En)

1 table

2 fig., 8 ref.

ISBN

978-9984-825-68-7

Type

Conference; Summary

Source

Applied Information and Communication Technologies. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference, Jelgava, Latvia, April 10-12, 2008, Latvia Univ. of Agriculture, Jelgava (Latvia). Faculty of Information Technologies.- Jelgava (Latvia): Latvia University of Agriculture, 2008. International Scientific Conference: Applied Information and Communication Technologies, Jelgava (Latvia), 10-12 Apr 2008.- 978-9984-825-68-7.- p. 56-61

Conférence

International Scientific Conference: Applied Information and Communication Technologies, , Jelgava (Latvia), 10-12 Apr 2008

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