Information technology and development : a new paradigm for delivering the Internet to rural areas in developing countries / Jeffrey James.
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TextSeries: Routledge studies in development economics ; 39Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004Description: xi, 125 p. : 23 cmISBN: 041532632XSubject(s): Information Technology -- Economic Aspects -- Developing countries | Internet -- Economic Aspects -- Developing Countries | Telecommunication -- Economic aAspects -- Developing Aountries | Rural Development -- Developing Countries | Developing Countries -- Economic ConditionsDDC classification: 001.5 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 001.5 JAM/I (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P03029 |
1 Introduction
Competing concepts and their intellectual
antecedents
The emerging paradigm and its intellectual
antecedents
Fragmentation of the emerging paradigm
Priorities for future research
PART I
Analytical foundations of a new paradigm
2 The existing paradigm and its limitations
International technological dualism
Information technology as international
technological dualism
Technological systems
The donor response: universal access via
telecentres
Evaluating telecentres
Conclusions
Appendix
3 An emerging paradigm
The paradigms compared
The ubiquity of radio and telephony in rural areas
Differential costs and benefits
Intellectual antecedents of the emerging paradigm
Conclusions
PART II
Radios, telephones and Internet access
4 Community radio and the Internet
The Kothmale Internet Project
Conclusions
5 Basic telephony and the Internet in
rural areas
Browsing the Internet by telephone
Telegrams by telephone
Technology blending applications to the
health sector
Conclusions
PART III
Rural Internet access: alternatives to radios
and telephones
6 The need for alternatives
Radios, telephones and the burden of
rural connectivity
Conclusions
7 The role of rural Internet kiosks: Gyandoot
The shift to services
Gvandoot
Gyandoot versus Kothmale
Conclusions
8 The role of rural Internet kiosks: n-Logue
The sale of Internet kiosks to rural entrepreneurs
Rural kiosk-owners as entrepreneurs
The political economy of corDECT
Conclusions1 Introduction
Competing concepts and their intellectual
antecedents
The emerging paradigm and its intellectual
antecedents
Fragmentation of the emerging paradigm
Priorities for future research
PART I
Analytical foundations of a new paradigm
2 The existing paradigm and its limitations
International technological dualism
Information technology as international
technological dualism
Technological systems
The donor response: universal access via
telecentres
Evaluating telecentres
Conclusions
Appendix
3 An emerging paradigm
The paradigms compared
The ubiquity of radio and telephony in rural areas
Differential costs and benefits
Intellectual antecedents of the emerging paradigm
Conclusions
PART II
Radios, telephones and Internet access
4 Community radio and the Internet
The Kothmale Internet Project
Conclusions
5 Basic telephony and the Internet in
rural areas
Browsing the Internet by telephone
Telegrams by telephone
Technology blending applications to the
health sector
Conclusions
PART III
Rural Internet access: alternatives to radios
and telephones
6 The need for alternatives
Radios, telephones and the burden of
rural connectivity
Conclusions
7 The role of rural Internet kiosks: Gyandoot
The shift to services
Gvandoot
Gyandoot versus Kothmale
Conclusions
8 The role of rural Internet kiosks: n-Logue
The sale of Internet kiosks to rural entrepreneurs
Rural kiosk-owners as entrepreneurs
The political economy of corDECT
Conclusions
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