None of the rural areas in Lebanon were particularly remote, and there was no great distinction between rural life and urban life.

Solar panels were being used in several African countries and in Brazil to provide electrical power to homes in rural and remote areas, and high capacity storage batteries were used for solar power generated electricity in rural and remote areas.

ITU is engaged in a variety of activities intended to stimulate the development of telecommunications in rural and remote areas.

The original intent was to use low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites to reach rural and remote areas.

Recognition of the potential of satellite based tele education and telemedicine in rural and remote areas of the world is increasing.

The Committee is particularly concerned at the lack of vocational training opportunities, in particular in rural and remote areas.

The Committee is particularly concerned at the lack of vocational training opportunities, in particular in rural and remote areas.

Special emphasis was placed on improving communications networks for remote and rural areas of developing countries through the use of satellite based communications services.

(b) The low level of social awareness among rural women and their high illiteracy rate, which is 42 per cent, as compared with 17 per cent among men in rural areas

Since 1993, the Ministry of Education in Chile has been developing an educational network connecting more than 100 elementary schools in rural and remote areas.

You find them in any inaccessible village around the world.

191. The high rate of unemployment in the metropolitan and in the rural areas is also an inhibiting factor.

One reason for early leaving of school is the distance of some rural locations from schools.

B. Sustainable development Major food resources come from rural or remote areas, and the infrastructure needed to develop and manage both agriculture and fisheries normally has been tedious and expensive.

Pockets of indigenous communities concentrate in far villages in remote locations and schooling facilities have been provided for them.

As a result, 53 small earth stations were installed in remote and rural areas of China to receive ITV programmes and for rebroadcast for local reception.

Absenteeism in the smaller, more remote provincial stations continued to be high, while plans to recruit additional police officers for rural areas are yet to be concretized.

(a) Illiteracy rates Blacks, 43 per cent in rural areas and 23.2 per cent in urban areas Whites, 20 per cent in rural areas and 7.3 per cent in urban areas

53. The out migration of youth from the countryside is creating an age imbalance in rural areas.

WOMEN IN RURAL AREAS

ARTICLE 14 Women in rural areas

Adequate use of space communication technologies may result in solutions to many of the problems in rural environments and schools, in remote police stations and in distant hospitals and health care centres.

Since a majority of the world population lived in rural and remote areas beyond national power grids, using solar energy provided a less expensive alternative.

The Ministry of Mines had accordingly started a village water supply programme that had now extended the coverage to 80 per cent of the country and was expected within two years to have reached even the remote mountain areas.

The filth, the squalor, the hardships in the remote areas.

In pursuing its mandate, ITU developed the Spacecom project to promote the use of satellite communications systems in rural and remote areas of developing countries.

Access to micro credit, especially in remote rural areas, is an effective tool in enhancing socio economic conditions and empowering poor communities and individuals.

Remote rural populations and families that have recently migrated to urban ger (traditional tent) areas of cities are especially prone to multiple vulnerabilities.

Organization of grants, loans and credit facilities under easy conditions, with government guarantees and offered on a preferential basis, for men and women responsible for supporting families in economically disadvantaged rural or remote areas

In the city itself, perhaps, but not in the outlying villages, Hsien Chang.

The three levels of basic education are provided through services adapted to the linguistic and cultural needs of the country's indigenous groups, inhabitants of remote rural areas, and migrant groups.

In Australia, a number of states use satellite ITV on an operational basis to deliver educational programmes to primary and secondary schools located in rural and remote areas.

18. Promoting access of young women and young men to land, credit, technologies and information, thereby enhancing the opportunities and development resources of young people living within rural and remote communities

Most of the participants in those training sessions are women. The effectiveness of those sessions can be assessed from the number of newly created women's NGOs in rural areas, even in remote rural settlements.

Space technology had a vital role to play in enhancing medical services, medical consulta tions and the monitoring of epidemic disease, particularly in remote and rural areas.

Pockets of extreme poverty within countries are common in all regions which include geographically inaccessible areas, remote rural communities and urban slums.

While this configuration provides considerable support to remote and rural areas, there are plans to increase the number of satellites and instruments available for use by developing countries.

Irrigation equipment testing Desertification and water management Water harvesting technologies Climate monitoring (Risk management) Strategies drought mitigation Refining analytical systems Strategies rehabilitation of degraded lands Efficient irrigation Water recycling

Unemployment in rural areas

to intensify development of remote settlements and bring them to the level obtaining in other villages in the country

To achieve this, special attention is given to rural and remote areas and to minority groups.

An obvious advantage of ITV was that it could bring educational opportunities to students in rural and remote areas where qualified teachers in many disciplines were not available.

(d) Programmes for promoting renewable sources of energy, particularly in remote rural areas

While access to electricity grids will remain a problem in rural areas due to often remote locations and low density of demand, increased urbanization may indirectly improve the situation in rural areas and create increasing problems in maintaining high urban access rates.

The issue remained a cause of concern, with rates significantly higher in rural areas and areas of temporary refugee settlement.