Technologies of Choice?: Icts, Development, and the Capabilities Approach

by Dorothea Kleine

A new framework for assessing the role of information and communication technologies in development that draws on Amartya Sen's capabilities approach.

Information and communication technologies (ICTs)--especially the Internet and the mobile phone--have changed the lives of people all over the world. These changes affect not just the affluent populations of income-rich countries but also disadvantaged people in both global North and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262018209
• ISBN13: 9780262018203
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher