Bridging the Global Digital DivideEdward Elgar Publishing, 01.01.2003 - 135 Seiten According to many observers, the global digital divide - the extent to which information technology is benefiting developed as opposed to developing countries - has already established itself as the single most pervasive theme of the twenty-first century. |
Inhalt
the role of technical change | 3 |
2 The digital divide between nations as international technological dualism | 16 |
Bridging the Global Digital Divide | 31 |
3 The global information infrastructure revisited | 33 |
current opportunities and emerging possibilities | 45 |
5 Lowcost computing and related ways of overcoming the global digital divide | 58 |
opportunities and constraints for developing countries | 72 |
7 Sustainable Internet access for the rural poor? Elements of an emerging Indian model | 87 |
8 A webbased registry of lowcost information technologies for developing countries? | 98 |
9 Universal access to information technology in developing countries | 108 |
an evaluation | 119 |
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