Information technology, development, and social change

Description:

"The speed and cost effectiveness of new information technology has prompted many to view these innovations as a panacea for social and economic development. However, such a view flies in the face of continuing inequities in education, health, food, and infrastructure. This volume explores these issues - along with questions of access, privilege, literacy, training, and the environmental and health effects of information technologies in the developing world - arguing that a higher level of development does not always result from a higher level of technologization."--

subjects: Economic development,  Digital divide,  Social change,  Information technology,  Information society,  Technologie de l'information,  Développement économique,  Fossé numérique,  COMPUTERS,  Information Technology,  Informationstechnik