Information Needs for Village Community Development

Information is basic instinct for development for both urban and rural inhabitants. Prosperity, progress, and development of any nation depend upon the nation's ability to acquire, produce, access, and use pertinent information., “Access to information and advice is a key resource for local people in maintaining active and independent lives. Access to information is also critical to letting people know their entitlements to welfare benefits and sources of support to overcome social exclusion.” (A report on older rural people , 2008)

Information is the lifeblood of any society and vital to the activities of both the government and private sectors. "The dependence upon information to create innovation and change, places a high premium on the ability of (developing countries) nations to access and use information to create advances in society". (Bell, 1974). The development of countries globally cannot be achieved without the development of the rural community. This is because 75 to 80 percent of the people in developing countries live in the rural areas need positive, relevant and prompts attention in their daily activities.

No serious, active, conscious, sensitive, and organized government would want to neglect rural communities. Rural neglects brings negative consequences such as migration of rural inhabitants to urban areas, with resulting problems of unemployment, crimes, child labour, uncertainty, money laundering, poverty, spread of diseases, and overstretching of the facilities and infrastructures in the urban areas.