Information Technology and Development: A New Paradigm for Delivering the Internet to Rural Areas in Developing Countries

by Jeffrey James and Jeffrey James

Book Overview

Attempts to bring the benefits of information technology in the form of the internet to developing countries have, to date, foundered on the belief that this requires the beneficiaries to access the technology directly. As a result, the perceived huge benefits of such an enterprise have often failed to materialise.
This original contribution to the debate on developing countries and IT suggests that the benefits of the internet can be passed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041532632X
• ISBN13: 9780415326322
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.8"