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Age and education level as indicators in acquiring ICT skills among rural entrepreneurs in Samarahan, Sarawak / Mohd Ariff Zabidi Manja …[et al.]

The ability to capitalize on the digital economy by agro-based entrepreneurs greatly depends on their ability to acquire sufficient ICT knowledge and apply ICT in the running of their businesses. While the development of digital infrastructure is aggressively planned and implemented, awareness, know...

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Main Authors: Hoe, Lau Sie, Engkamat, Adeline, Mathew, Vloreen Nity, Ibrahim, Zalina, Ani, Ahmad Lutfi, Zabidi Manja, Mohd Ariff
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Teknologi MARA 2021
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Entrepreneurship. Risk and uncertainty
Information technology. Information systems
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spelling my.uitm.ir.579452022-04-08T02:03:00Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/57945/ Age and education level as indicators in acquiring ICT skills among rural entrepreneurs in Samarahan, Sarawak / Mohd Ariff Zabidi Manja …[et al.] Hoe, Lau Sie Engkamat, Adeline Mathew, Vloreen Nity Ibrahim, Zalina Ani, Ahmad Lutfi Zabidi Manja, Mohd Ariff Entrepreneurship. Risk and uncertainty Information technology. Information systems The ability to capitalize on the digital economy by agro-based entrepreneurs greatly depends on their ability to acquire sufficient ICT knowledge and apply ICT in the running of their businesses. While the development of digital infrastructure is aggressively planned and implemented, awareness, knowledge, and skills to support its usage may still be lacking among the rural population. This paper reports preliminary studies on the knowledge and extent of ICT usage among rural entrepreneurs in Samarahan Division of Sarawak. Data collected from questionnaires were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics using ANOVA. There are correlations between ICT learning ability and age, as well as education background.Although 65.2% of respondents were positive about learning ICT, the mean value, the minimum and maximum values indicated that item scores decreased as the respondent’s age was higher, suggesting that older respondents felt learning ICT is not easy. The findings also show a significant difference in the ability in learning ICT with respect to age groups (p-value = 0.015) and varying levels of education (p-value = 0.008) among the sampled population. Universiti Teknologi MARA 2021 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/57945/1/57945.pdf (2021) Age and education level as indicators in acquiring ICT skills among rural entrepreneurs in Samarahan, Sarawak / Mohd Ariff Zabidi Manja …[et al.]. Forum Komunikasi (FK), 16 (2): 13. pp. 108-120. ISSN 0128-2379 (e-ISNN) https://forumkomunikasi.uitm.edu.my
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topic Entrepreneurship. Risk and uncertainty
Information technology. Information systems
spellingShingle Entrepreneurship. Risk and uncertainty
Information technology. Information systems
Hoe, Lau Sie
Engkamat, Adeline
Mathew, Vloreen Nity
Ibrahim, Zalina
Ani, Ahmad Lutfi
Zabidi Manja, Mohd Ariff
Age and education level as indicators in acquiring ICT skills among rural entrepreneurs in Samarahan, Sarawak / Mohd Ariff Zabidi Manja …[et al.]
description The ability to capitalize on the digital economy by agro-based entrepreneurs greatly depends on their ability to acquire sufficient ICT knowledge and apply ICT in the running of their businesses. While the development of digital infrastructure is aggressively planned and implemented, awareness, knowledge, and skills to support its usage may still be lacking among the rural population. This paper reports preliminary studies on the knowledge and extent of ICT usage among rural entrepreneurs in Samarahan Division of Sarawak. Data collected from questionnaires were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics using ANOVA. There are correlations between ICT learning ability and age, as well as education background.Although 65.2% of respondents were positive about learning ICT, the mean value, the minimum and maximum values indicated that item scores decreased as the respondent’s age was higher, suggesting that older respondents felt learning ICT is not easy. The findings also show a significant difference in the ability in learning ICT with respect to age groups (p-value = 0.015) and varying levels of education (p-value = 0.008) among the sampled population.
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author Hoe, Lau Sie
Engkamat, Adeline
Mathew, Vloreen Nity
Ibrahim, Zalina
Ani, Ahmad Lutfi
Zabidi Manja, Mohd Ariff
author_facet Hoe, Lau Sie
Engkamat, Adeline
Mathew, Vloreen Nity
Ibrahim, Zalina
Ani, Ahmad Lutfi
Zabidi Manja, Mohd Ariff
author_sort Hoe, Lau Sie
title Age and education level as indicators in acquiring ICT skills among rural entrepreneurs in Samarahan, Sarawak / Mohd Ariff Zabidi Manja …[et al.]
title_short Age and education level as indicators in acquiring ICT skills among rural entrepreneurs in Samarahan, Sarawak / Mohd Ariff Zabidi Manja …[et al.]
title_full Age and education level as indicators in acquiring ICT skills among rural entrepreneurs in Samarahan, Sarawak / Mohd Ariff Zabidi Manja …[et al.]
title_fullStr Age and education level as indicators in acquiring ICT skills among rural entrepreneurs in Samarahan, Sarawak / Mohd Ariff Zabidi Manja …[et al.]
title_full_unstemmed Age and education level as indicators in acquiring ICT skills among rural entrepreneurs in Samarahan, Sarawak / Mohd Ariff Zabidi Manja …[et al.]
title_sort age and education level as indicators in acquiring ict skills among rural entrepreneurs in samarahan, sarawak / mohd ariff zabidi manja …[et al.]
publisher Universiti Teknologi MARA
publishDate 2021
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/57945/1/57945.pdf
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