Format:
1 online resource (181 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781136326127
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0415502683
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9780415502689
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9781280682049
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9780203121207
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Development and Society Ser.
Content:
The speed and cost effectiveness of new information technology has prompted many to view these innovations as a panacea for social and economic development. However, such a view flies in the face of continuing inequities in education, health, food, and infrastructure. This volume explores these issues - along with questions of access, privilege, literacy, training, and the environmental and health effects of information technologies in the developing world - arguing that a higher level of development does not always result from a higher level of technologization.
Content:
Cover -- Information Technology,Development,and Social Change -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Foreword: Beyond the Innovation Divide -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Alternative Perspectives on the Diffusion of Innovations andInternational Development -- 1. Diffusing the Innovation Divide in International Development: Redressing the Injustices of Modernity -- 2. Reframing the Diffusion of Innovations and International Development Within a Socially Responsible, Just, and Sustainable Development Perspective -- 3. Empowering Communities: A Holistic Approach for Innovation -- Part II: Innovative Technology: Impact on Developing Communities -- 4. Hybridizing Mainstream and Development News: A Development Perspective From Trinidad and Tobago -- 5. Diffusing Information and Communication Technology Equitably Across Gendered Spaces in the 21st Century: Renegotiating the Gendered Space -- 6. Entertainment-Education and Social Change -- 7. Individual Acceptance of SMS-Based E-Government Services: A Conceptual Model -- 8. The Role of Institutional Entrepreneurs in Enabling the Adoption of E-Governance Systems -- Part III: International Development: Critical Perspectives on Health,Poverty, and Environment -- 9. Food Security: Eliminating Global Poverty and Hunger -- 10. The Race Toward Green Energy and Sustainable Development -- 11. Indigenous Land Use and Occupancy Mapping as a Technology of Power -- 12. Looking Forward: Diffusing Innovations and Developing Communities With Respect, Dignity, and Justice -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
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pt. 1. Alternative perspectives on the diffusion of innovations andinternational developmentpt. 2. Innovative technology : impact on developing communities -- pt. 3. International development : critical perspectives on health,poverty, and environment.
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impact on developing communities -- pt. 3. International development : critical perspectives on health,poverty, and environment
Additional Edition:
9780415502689
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9780415502689
Language:
English
Keywords:
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