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Information And Communication Technology For Development (Ict4D) (Paperback)
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Information And Communication Technology For Development (Ict4D) (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development
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Loot Price R554
Discovery Miles 5 540
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Mobile phones are close to ubiquitous in developing countries;
Internet and broadband access are becoming commonplace. Information
and communication technologies (ICTs) thus represent the fastest,
broadest and deepest technical change experienced in international
development. They now affect every development sector - supporting
the work of hundreds of millions of farmers and
micro-entrepreneurs; creating millions of ICT-based jobs; assisting
healthcare workers and teachers; facilitating political change;
impacting climate change; but also linked with digital inequalities
and harms - with the pace of change continuously accelerating.
Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D)
provides the first dedicated textbook to examine and explain these
emerging phenomena. It will help students, practitioners,
researchers and other readers understand the place of ICTs within
development; the ICT-enabled changes already underway; and the key
issues and interventions that engage ICT4D practice and strategy.
The book has a three-part structure. The first three chapters set
out the foundations of ICT4D: the core relation between ICTs and
development; the underlying components needed for ICT4D to work;
and best practice in implementing ICT4D. Five chapters then analyse
key development goals: economic growth, poverty eradication, social
development, good governance and environmental sustainability. Each
chapter assesses the goal-related impact associated with ICTs and
key lessons from real-world cases. The final chapter looks ahead to
emerging technologies and emerging models of ICT-enabled
development. The book uses extensive in-text diagrams, tables and
boxed examples with chapter-end discussion and assignment questions
and further reading. Supported by online activities, video links,
session outlines and slides, this textbook provides the basis for
undergraduate, postgraduate and online learning modules on ICT4D.
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