High technology and low-income communities : prospects for the positive use of advanced information technology
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High technology and low-income communities : prospects for the positive use of advanced information technology
MIT Press, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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How will low-income communities be affected by the waves of social, economic, political, and cultural change that surround the new information technologies? How can we influence the outcome? This action-oriented book identifies the key issues, explores the evidence, and suggests some answers. Avoiding both utopianism and despair, the book presents the voices of technology enthusiasts and skeptics, as well as social activists. The book is organized into three parts. Part I examines the issues in their socio-technical, economic, and historical contexts. Part II-the core of the book-proposes five initiatives for using computers and electronic communications to benefit low-income urban communities:- to provide access to the new technologies in ways that enable low-income people to become active producers rather than passive users;- to use the new technologies to improve the dialogue between public agencies and low-income neighborhoods;- to help low-income youth to exploit the entrepreneurial potential of information technologies;- to develop approaches to education that take advantage of the educational capabilities of the computer;- to promote the community computer: applications of computers and communications technology that foster community development. Part III presents a synthesis of the various topics. Its main questions are, What are the prospects and problems of initiatives to enable the poor to benefit from the new technologies? and What federal, state, and municipal policies would enhance the prospects for success?ContributorsAlice Amsden, Jeanne Bamberger, Anne Beamish, Manuel Castells, Joseph Ferreira, Peter Hall, Leo Marx, William J. Mitchell, Mitchel Resnick, Bish Sanyal, Donald A. Schoen, Alan and Michelle Shaw, Michael Shiffer, Bruno Tardieu, Sherry Turkle, Julian Wolpert
目次
- Part 1 Setting the context: the informational city as a dual city - can it be reversed?, Manuel Castells
- changing geographies - technology and income, Peter Hall
- centre cities as havens and traps for low-income communities - the potential impact of advanced information technology, Julian Wolpert
- the city of bits hypothesis, William J. Mitchell
- information technology in historical perspective, Leo Marx. Part 2 Strategies of action: the question of access - equitable access to the online world, William J. Mitchell
- governance and advanced information technology -information technologies that change relationships between low-income communities and the public and nonprofit agencies that serve them, Joseph Ferreira, Jr., planning support systems for low-income communities, Michael Shiffer
- entrepreneurial potential - software entrepreneurship among the urban poor - could Bill Gates have succeeded if he were black?....or impoverished?, Alice H. Amsden and Jon Collins Clark
- the educational computer - action knowledge and symbolic knowledge - the computer as mediator, Jeanne Bamberger
- the community computer - the computer clubhouse - technological fluency in the inner city, Mitchel Resnick et al, computer as community memory - how people in very poor neighbourhoods made a computer their own, Bruno Tardieu, social empowerment through community networks, Alan Shaw and Michelle Shaw, commodity and community in personal computing, Sherry Turkle, approaches to community computing - bringing technology to low-income groups, Anne Beamish. Part 3 Conclusions: information technology and urban poverty - the role of public policy, Bish Sanyal and Donald A. Schon.
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