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.
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.
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Knowledge societies --in a nutshell.
Knowledge societies --in a nutshell.
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Information technology-- Developing countries.
Sustainable development-- Developing countries.
Technological innovations-- Developing countries.
Développement durable-- Pays en voie de développement.
Innovations-- Pays en voie de développement.
Technologie de l'information-- Pays en voie de développement.
Développement durable-- Pays en voie de développement.
Duurzame ontwikkeling.
Environnement-- Protection-- Pays en voie de développement.
Informatietechnologie.
Information technology.
Innovations-- Pays en voie de développement.
Kennismaatschappij.
Nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication-- Pays en voie de développement.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Economic Policy.
Sustainable development.
Technological innovations.
Developing countries.
Ontwikkelingslanden.
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Credé, Andreas.
Mansell, Robin E.
International Development Research Centre (Canada)
United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development.