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Author : Amelia McFarlane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (271 download)
Download or read book Rethinking Development Discourse and Information and Communication Technologies written by Amelia McFarlane and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anna Bon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789078289111
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Intervention Or Collaboration? written by Anna Bon and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Petter Nielsen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 303019115X
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Information and Communication Technologies for Development. Strengthening Southern-Driven Cooperation as a Catalyst for ICT4D written by Petter Nielsen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-26 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two volumes IFIP AICT 551 and 552 constitute the refereed proceedings of the 15th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2019, held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in May 2019. The 97 revised full papers and 2 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 185 submissions. The papers present a wide range of perspectives and disciplines including (but not limited to) public administration, entrepreneurship, business administration, information technology for development, information management systems, organization studies, philosophy, and management. They are organized in the following topical sections: communities, ICT-enabled networks, and development; digital platforms for development; ICT for displaced population and refugees. How it helps? How it hurts?; ICT4D for the indigenous, by the indigenous and of the indigenous; local technical papers; pushing the boundaries - new research methods, theory and philosophy in ICT4D; southern-driven human-computer interaction; sustainable ICT, informatics, education and learning in a turbulent world - "doing the safari way”.
Author : Marcus Power
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134531400
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Rethinking Development Geographies written by Marcus Power and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Development as a concept is notoriously imprecise, vague and presumptuous. Struggles over the meaning of this fiercely contested term have had profound implications on the destinies of people and places across the globe. Rethinking Development Geographies offers a stimulating and critical introduction to the study of geography and development. In doing so, it sets out to explore the spatiality of development thinking and practices. The book highlights the geopolitical nature of development and its origins in Empire and the Cold War. It also reflects critically on the historical engagement of geographers with 'the Tropics', the 'Third World' and the 'South'. The dominant economic and political philosophies that shape the policies and perspectives of major institutions are discussed. The interconnections between globalization and development are highlighted through an examination of local, national and transnational resistance to various forms of development. The text provides an accessible introduction to the complex and confusing world of contemporary global development. Informative diagrams, cartoons and case studies are used throughout. While exploring global geographies of economic and political change Rethinking Development Geographies is also grounded in a concern with people and places, the 'view from below', the views of women and the view from the 'South'.
Author : Mark Warschauer
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0262731738
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (627 download)
Download or read book Technology and Social Inclusion written by Mark Warschauer and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2004-09-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the discussion about new technologies and social equality has focused on the oversimplified notion of a "digital divide." Technology and Social Inclusion moves beyond the limited view of haves and have-nots to analyze the different forms of access to information and communication technologies. Drawing on theory from political science, economics, sociology, psychology, communications, education, and linguistics, the book examines the ways in which differing access to technology contributes to social and economic stratification or inclusion. The book takes a global perspective, presenting case studies from developed and developing countries, including Brazil, China, Egypt, India, and the United States. A central premise is that, in today's society, the ability to access, adapt, and create knowledge using information and communication technologies is critical to social inclusion. This focus on social inclusion shifts the discussion of the "digital divide" from gaps to be overcome by providing equipment to social development challenges to be addressed through the effective integration of technology into communities, institutions, and societies. What is most important is not so much the physical availability of computers and the Internet but rather people's ability to make use of those technologies to engage in meaningful social practices.
Author : Varda Muhlbauer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319692097
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)
Download or read book Redefining Management written by Varda Muhlbauer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-08 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This progressive -volume introduces the concept of smart power in management, bringing contemporary humanistic values to the power dynamics of organizations and businesses. The chapters review sociopolitical, economic, and technological conditions fueling the recent shift in ideas about power in management, from the globalization of business to young workers’ motivation regarding their jobs and careers. Contributors examine a range of models, processes, and frameworks for planning and implementing smart power across diverse organizations, with accompanying challenges and caveats. In its theory and examples, the book makes a cogent case for the shift from traditional hard power, with its winner takes all culture and potential for abuses, to a more creative and democratic model. Included in the coverage: · The power of change and the need to change power: changing perception of power in the organizational setting. · The dynamics of Information and Communication Technologies and smart power: implications for managerial practice. · Economic growth, management, and smart power. · New Ways of Working: from smart to shared power. · Positive psychological capital: from strengths to power. · Narcissistic leadership in organizations: a two-edged sword. Redefining management : Smart power perspectives is proactive reading for students in professional and business-related academic fields (e.g., organizational behavior, sociology, and business and management), and for managers at all organizational levels. The book is a harbinger of transformative possibilities shaping the management landscape to come.
Author : Eleanor H. Wynn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0387356347
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Global and Organizational Discourse about Information Technology written by Eleanor H. Wynn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 20 years, the field of information systems has grown dramatically in theoretical diversity and global reach. This growth is reflected in the language that policy makers and organizational stakeholders use when they talk about their IT plans. As information technology penetrates further into organizational and global life, it becomes ever more important to articulate assumptions embedded in the discourse. This will help to clarify the complex and yet conceptually improvised or pasted-up worldview that becomes embodied in systems. The assumptions point to particular domains of discourse. The discourse sets up conventions and boundaries. It thus shapes what can or cannot legitimately be talked about, researched, addressed, or solved within the scope of IT. A number of practical and theoretical topics are discussed in detail, including: *Globalization, development, and space; *Mobilization of power; *ERP systems; *IS planning and projects; *Critical research and the study of discourse; *Public institutions; *Analytical frameworks. This book contains the selected proceedings of the Working Conference on Global and Organizational Discourse About Information Technology, sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Barcelona, Spain in December 2002.
Author : Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789871183265
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Media and Glocal Change written by Thomas Hylland Eriksen and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. Mukerji
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137005548
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book ICTs and Development written by M. Mukerji and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juxtaposes the global discourse on ICT-D with in-depth case studies on the pattern of access and use of telecentres to draw implications for the possible development trajectories induced by the provision of ICTs in rural hinterlands of India.
Author : Linje Manyozo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351719599
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Communicating Development with Communities written by Linje Manyozo and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communicating Development with Communities aims to take students, researchers and development professionals away from the theory of the classroom or policy-making boardroom and out into the community. Building on the work of Robert Chambers and Arturo Escobar, the book is an empirically grounded critical reflection on how the development industry defines, imagines and constructs development at the implementation level. Communicating Development With Communities is written for students, scholars and practitioners in participatory development, to prepare them for the complexities and challenges that await them when it comes to working with marginalised people in both the north and the south.
Author : Karin Wilkins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113501096X
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Global Communication written by Karin Wilkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume interrogates what "global" means in the context of "communication," and who benefits from global communication practices and industries. Emerging scholars contribute their unique perspectives in communication scholarship, charting innovative directions for research that connects empirical evidence with pressing questions of social significance. This critical reflection leads to considering problems that result from the way global communication becomes mobilized, in the practice of journalism and development as well as the ICT industry. Global Communication defines the term "globalization," through understanding the cultural geography of global, regional, national, and local media. Critical evaluations of media production, distribution, and consumption practices, within cultural contexts, offer insights into how people "mediate" the global. Chapters draw attention to communications in Latin America, the Arab World, and South Asia, complicating territorial boundaries and exploring how local audience and industry practices work within global as well as local configurations.
Author : David Apter
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780803929715
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Rethinking Development written by David Apter and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1987-10-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Development theory is at a crossroads. Dominant theories such as modernization and dependency have run their course. In Rethinking Development one of the preeminent political and social theorists of our time offers his view of the direction of the discipline. Using major themes such as the relation between development and democracy, the problem of innovation and marginality, Professor Apter offers an innovative comparative study of development. Rethinking Development takes a new look at scientific, romantic and teleological formulations of development, showing how conventional concepts of development prevent us from seeing its negative consequences. It argues that development will generate democracy, but not e
Author : Indrajit Banerjee
Publisher : AMIC
ISBN 13 : 9814136107
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (141 download)
Download or read book Asian Communication Handbook 2008 written by Indrajit Banerjee and published by AMIC. This book was released on 2008 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris Paterson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131775526X
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Journalism and Social Media in Africa written by Chris Paterson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through innovative research studies and expert commentaries, this book documents the fast evolving invention of the relationship between the millions of social media and mobile phone users around Africa and traditional purveyors of news. Whilst social media demonstrates an unprecedented ability for the politically engaged to both bypass and influence traditional information flows, it also faces unique circumstances through much of Africa. Signs of social change brought by mobile technology are evident around the continent, raising questions about the nature of information exchange and citizenship. Working from a wide variety of perspectives and methodologies, the contributors to this collection address key questions emerging from rapid communication change in Africa. This book reveals how new, participatory, interactive communications technologies are enabling new tellings of Africa’s stories. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies.
Author : Van Slyke, Craig
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1599049503
Total Pages : 4288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Information Communication Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications written by Van Slyke, Craig and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 4288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid development of information communication technologies (ICTs) is having a profound impact across numerous aspects of social, economic, and cultural activity worldwide, and keeping pace with the associated effects, implications, opportunities, and pitfalls has been challenging to researchers in diverse realms ranging from education to competitive intelligence.
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Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Documentation Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mario Pansera
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119572517
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Innovation and Development written by Mario Pansera and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-11-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation, often tempered by the language of inclusion, has become an indispensable element of contemporary development policy and practice in the so-called Global South. Driven by multinational companies, public–private partnerships and social enterprises, “innovation for development” aims to co-produce social goods (things of value) such as poverty alleviation with associated profit through innovative market-led solutions, opening up untapped and unserved markets in the developing world and exploiting the potential “fortune at the bottom of the pyramid”. But innovation for development is a contested notion with the capacity to shelter multiple political agendas. By reviewing existing academic theory and discussing four in-depth case studies from Bangladesh and India, this book interrogates how innovation for development is being framed, its politics and the impacts it is having on rural communities on the ground. The analysis suggests both an emerging hegemony constructed around a neoliberal, market-led agenda and the existence of countervailing voices that question this framing, sometimes radically so.
