Design and determination : the role of information technology in redressing regional inequities in the development process
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Design and determination : the role of information technology in redressing regional inequities in the development process
（Voices in development management）
Ashgate, 2004
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Bibliography: p. [241]-260
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Description
This book draws on research into current and prospective developments in information and communication technologies and their impacts on the continuing process of globalization. It breaks new ground by promoting a design paradigm to aid understanding of the process of technological shaping within the globalizing. It is concerned with the balance between the constraints imposed by design decision-making in technical and social artifacts, and the space for those outside the initial decision loop to occupy and modify those design spaces. It identifies windows of opportunity provided by the shift from hierarchical to essentially disintermediated systems for the delivery of information and communication resources. This book also provides a framework for policy analysis and development at micro, meso and macro levels.
Table of Contents
- Part I: Design and Development: The Worlds We Live In: Design and determination: overcoming exclusion in an emergent global context
- Chains, networks, webs: the topology and geography of a global system of development
- Wicked problems and evil empires, positivism, complexity and the Cold War origins of the information society
- Virtual working: public and private presence in hyperspace
- Windows of opportunity: supporting development with appropriate technologies or appropriated technologies. Part II: Determination and Design: Frames and Paradigms: Finding a lever to move the world: the design paradigm and its value
- Time-frames and design decision-making
- Finding a place to stand: a 'metatechnical' framework for development
- Cultures, designs and design cultures, Perry Morrison with Stephen Little. Part III: From Geography to History: Designing A Place In The World: Development by design: two national development paths, Melih Kirlidog with Stephen Little
- Designing development: cultural consonances in post-cold War development, Stephen Little with Melih Kirlidog
- Through the window or through the looking glass: prospects for greater equity in development
- Bibliography
- Index.
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