Abstract
Information and communication technology (ICT) is indeed an important tool to expose the rural community to development. Realizing the importance of ICT, a number of high impact ICT programs and projects have been introduced by the government. However, do the rural community especially their leaders which are the Village Development and Security Committee members (JKKK) use ICT? And more importantly do they perceive ICT as useful in their daily activities and tasks? This question brings us to the main objective of this paper which is to know the factors that influence the perceived usefulness towards ICT usage among the JKKK members in Peninsular Malaysia. Besides, this paper intends to investigate the level of perceived usefulness towards ICT usage among JKKK members and to reveal the most significant contributors for perceived usefulness towards ICT usage. This is a quantitative study whereby data were gathered using a questionnaire. Based on the multi stage random sampling, a total of 240 JKKK members have been selected as the respondents. Based on the analyses done, it can be concluded that respondents studied do have a high level of perceived usefulness towards ICT usage. All of the four factors studied have a positive and significant relationship towards ICT usage. Attitude was identified as the most significant contributor for perceived usefulness towards ICT usage while the four predictor variables explain about 60.0% of the variance/variation in perceived usefulness towards ICT usage.
Highlights
Musa (2010) has defined Information and communication technology (ICT) as a blend of technology and communication
The results on the respondents background focused on nine questions pertaining to age, level of education, type of job, income per month, experience of holding a position in JKKK, position in VDSC, whether or not they have attended any ICT course, duration of computer usage a week and duration of internet usage in a week
As the result of this study has shown, JKKK members studied have a high level of perceived usefulness towards ICT usage
Summary
Technology is a tool or software used to create something. Information technology can be understood as method, tools and software involved in the process of developing, assembling, and processing, managing, distributing and recording uncountable data. People admit and realize that the “traditional” ICT tools such as television, radio and newspaper have similar and equal strength and ability as the computer. ICT covers tools; software, content applications and products that have and bring together with it the message, information and knowledge that can be accessed and utilized. It is good to know that a large majority of Malaysian nowadays posses and use ICT and this happens as a result of continuous and persistent government efforts in bringing and exposing ICT to the community
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