Information technology and development : a new paradigm for delivering the Internet to rural areas in developing countries
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Information technology and development : a new paradigm for delivering the Internet to rural areas in developing countries
(Routledge studies in development economics, 39)
Routledge, 2004
Available at 21 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
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University Library for Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo図
333.8:J185010274412
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [117]-122) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Attempts to bring the benefits of information technology in the form of the internet to developing countries have, to date, foundered on the belief that this requires the beneficiaries to access the technology directly. As a result, the perceived huge benefits of such an enterprise have often failed to materialise.
This original contribution to the debate on developing countries and IT suggests that the benefits of the internet can be passed on via an intermediary. That is, what matters is not the internet itself, rather its ability to provide information that can be made relevant and useful locally. Intermediaries are arguably more likely to provide such information and hence more likely to promote what Amartya Sen called individual 'functionings', for example the ability to be free of illness.
Jeffrey James is an impressive servant to the discipline of development studies, here he brings together previously fragmented literatures to break new ground in internet intermediation. Information Technology and Development will interest development economists and practitioners in equal amounts.
Table of Contents
1. IntroductionPart One: Analytical Foundations of a New Paradigm 2. The Existing Paradigm and its Limitations3. An Emerging ParadigmPart Two: Radios, Telephones and Internet Access 4. Community Radio and the Internet5. Basic Telephony and the Internet in Rural AreasPart Three: Rural Internet Access: Alternatives to Radios and Telephones 6. The Need for Alternatives7. The Role of Rural Internet Kiosks: Gyandoot8. The Role of Rural Internet Kiosks: n-Logue
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