UID:
edocfu_9959238301702883
Format:
1 online resource (285 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-135-93157-7
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1-135-93158-5
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1-280-23629-9
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9786610236299
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0-203-33535-X
Series Statement:
Latin American studies
Content:
This book examines the political and developmental implications of the new information and communication technologies (NICT) in the Third World. Whereas the concept of the 'digital divide' tends to focus on technological and quantitative indicators, this work stresses the crucial role played by the political regime type, the pursued development model and the specific configuration of actors and decision-making dynamics. Two starkly contrasting Third World countries, state-socialist Cuba and the Latin America's ""show-case democracy"" Costa Rica, were chosen for two in-depth empirical country s
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Introduction -- The new information and communication technologies (NICT) -- NICT in Third World development : political issues in a transformed telecommunications regime -- Structures and transformation of the Costa Rican development model -- Active NICT development by state monopoly : a new Costa Rican model? -- Structures and transformation of Cuba's state-socialist development -- From the rejection of the Internet to the "informatization of society" : a political anatomy of change -- The politics of the Internet in Third World development : conclusions in comparative perspective.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-65097-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-94959-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203335352
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