Information technology, development and policy : theoretical perspectives and practical challenges

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Information technology, development and policy : theoretical perspectives and practical challenges

edited by Edward Mozley Roche, Michael James Blaine

Avebury, c1996

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-288) and index

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内容説明

World scholars in information science explore the impact of modern information technologies on the social and economic structures of developing countries. Through a combination of theoretical analysis and actual case studies, this important new book provides managers and policy makers with practical strategies for using information technologies to improve the effectiveness of national development planning and to generate critical competitive advantages for local businesses and national economies. The book also provides an insightful analysis of the social and political ramifications of these new technologies through detailed case studies of fimes and national institutions in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This will be of most use to anyone interested in the challenges and opportunities these modern technologies present to the world's developing regions.

目次

  • Introduction - information technology, development and policy
  • theoretical perspectives - the global data highway - from whom a freeway? For whom a toll road?
  • IT in developing countries - a loss of independence?
  • IT as a golbal economic development tool
  • promoting software production and export in developing countries
  • diffusion of IT and the competitiveness of Brazilian banking
  • strategic information systems planning - experiences from Hong Kong
  • the goal-concern-points technique - a Caribbean case study
  • practical challenges - computers and culture - cases from Kenya
  • infrastructure and institutions - the case of public health in Mongolia
  • health care networks - a hierarchical spider's web model
  • IT in rural development planning - the case of Nicaragua
  • a study of a university admission system in Uganda
  • impact of an imported IT sector - lessons from Ireland.

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