Title Knowledge societies --in a nutshell : information technology for sustainable development / Andreas Credé & Robin Mansell for the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development and the International Development Research Centre

Published Ottawa : The Centre, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 49 pages) : illustrations Contents Cover -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- The key opportunities -- CHAPTER 1 IDENTIFYING NEW ICT OPPORTUNITIES -- New types of learning and education -- A wired civil society -- New forms of commerce -- Opportunities for trade -- Potential uses of ICTs -- ICTs and employment -- New technical infrastructures -- CHAPTER 2 BUILDING THE CAPABILITIES -- Illiteracy44; skills44; and knowledge45;based development -- New social capabilities -- Tacit knowledge and the learning economy -- Acquiring new skills -- Lifelong learning -- Tools for building innovative knowledge societies -- CHAPTER 3 CONSTRUCTING THE INFRASTRUCTURE -- The Missing Link revisited -- Communication45;network development -- Expansion of the Internet -- Benefits of network expansion -- ICT production capacity -- Building new coalitions of resources -- CHAPTER 4 ADDRESSING KEY GOVERNANCE ISSUES -- International institutions governing ICTs -- Opening up but keeping control -- Governing trade in services and equipment -- Protecting intellectual property -- Privacy and information security -- Governance and the networld economy -- CHAPTER 5 FORMULATING ICT STRATEGIES -- Technology choices and capacity45;building -- Strategies for market liberalization -- Promoting improved access -- Harnessing ICTs for development -- Integrating ICT strategies -- Guidelines for ICT strategies -- CHAPTER 6 ICTs FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT -- APPENDIX I46; ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- ABOUT THE INSTITUTIONS -- ABOUT THE PUBLISHER -- Last Page Summary In summarizing the full-length report of the Working Group (entitled Knowledge Societies), this book focuses particularly on the dangers that will accompany a failure to develop information and communication technology (ICT) strategies tailored to the specific and changing needs of countries in the developing regions of the world. It will appeal to decision-makers and ICT producers and users, as well as to development professionals, academics, and citizens interested in development issues and the new and emerging information and communication technologies Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Information technology -- Developing countries Technological innovations -- Developing countries Sustainable development -- Developing countries POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy. Information technology Sustainable development Technological innovations Kennismaatschappij. Informatietechnologie. Duurzame ontwikkeling. Environnement -- Protection -- Pays en voie de développement. Développement durable -- Pays en voie de développement. Nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication -- Pays en voie de développement. Innovations -- Pays en voie de développement. Developing countries Ontwikkelingslanden. Form Electronic book Author Mansell, Robin E International Development Research Centre (Canada) United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development. ISBN 1552500594 9781552500590 1280717432 9781280717437 0889368589 9780889368583

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