Historically, geography has inhibited the growth of efficient transport systems, and underdeveloped transport and communication systems have in turn hindered economic development in Assam.
This can be daunting if communication skills are underdeveloped.
According to the Association of American Colleges and Universities, many employers believe recent college graduates are underdeveloped in key workplace skills like interpersonal communication, critical thinking, and organization.
One limitation of the study is that it did not include TVET colleges from two underdeveloped regions (Afar and Somali), due to communication and travel challenges.
This begs the question whether such scarcity of information is an indication of underdeveloped access arrangements or a lack of proper communication of existing arrangements.
Poor road and communication infrastructure, thin input and output markets, underdeveloped monetary systems are further claimed to affect the rural areas in Africa (Dorward et al., 2007).
Their communication skills need liberating, their critical vocabulary is underdeveloped.
"In the 90's, this idea of creating a national wireless network as a way of leap-frogging previous levels of commitment and woefully underdeveloped infrastructure was widely, widely embraced," said Dan Schiller, a professor of communication at the University of California at San Diego and an expert on international telecommunications.
On the other side, during recent years new technologies have facilitated our life in many ways (e.g. internet shopping, traveling and communication), although its implementation in mental healthcare has been slow and underdeveloped when compared to other areas (i.e. commercial).
If the promise of communication technology is impressive for advanced, urbanized medical environments, what they represent to underdeveloped, isolated, and underserved populations is no less than a dazzling jump over the digital divide that has separated us, with a promise for more equitable diffusion of health care.
