
Information Communication Technologies and Human Development Opportunities and Challenges
Opportunities and Challenges
IGI Publishing
Published on 30. November 2006
Book
Hardback
350 pages
978-1-59904-057-8 (ISBN)
Description
Technology has always played a decisive role in humanity's progress, although the positive impacts technology has on human development may become tainted by the risks it entails. Information Communication Technologies and Human Development: Opportunities and Challenges emphasizes the need to consider the geographic, historic, and cultural context of an information communication technology (ICT) for development initiative, and includes several real examples that show some of the key success factors that have to be taken into consideration when using ICTs for development.Information Communication Technologies and Human Development: Opportunities and Challenges is a tool for practitioners, providing a wide knowledge of several important ICTs for development experiences that have been conducted all over the developing world.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Hershey
United States
Publishing group
IGI Global
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Illustrations
Illustrations, map
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
854 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59904-057-8 (9781599040578)
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Content
Part I: ICTs and poverty reduction strategies around the world; Part II: How can ICTs promote development? Lessons from different fields;.