Computers and Computer Applications in Developing Countries
Author: Ukandi Godwin Damachi
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-12-30
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1349086479
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Computerization in Developing Countries
Author: Per Lind
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-07-13
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 1134957009
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe hope that computerization in developing countries would dramatically improve their economies has so far been unrealised. This book examines the difficulties of applying Western computer models in Third World countries.
The Information Revolution and Developing Countries
Author: Ernest J. Wilson (III.)
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9780262232302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn analysis of the problems and possibilities of the information revolution in developing countries, taking into account political, institutional, and cultural dynamics and structures.
Computers and Informatics in Developing Countries
Author: Mohan Munasinghe
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Published: 2014-05-20
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 148310110X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComputers and Informatics in Developing Countries is a collection of papers documenting the conference of the Expert Group on Computers and Informatics for Development which investigates how the international scientific and development community can assist developing countries in using computer and informatics technology to promote progress and growth. The papers address the need for developing countries to formulate and apply computer and informatics policies for development, as well as the role of an International Centre for Computers and Informatics (ICCI) should play in the development process. The ICCI should be based on the network principle that links other regional and national computer centers. The advantages of the network principle are lower startup costs, avoidance of setting up a large organization, and localized services of needs. An international organization similar to ICCI can accelerate Third World developmental efforts following the identification of needs of developing countries as regards computer and informatics, setting of clear objectives of ICCI, and meeting with potential donors. The collection is suitable for heads of both non-government agencies and government departments involved in international aid, education, or development, and also to administrators of educational institutions and philanthropic organizations.
New Communication Technologies in Developing Countries
Author: Jarice Hanson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1135439532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores how a number of developing countries -- including India, Malaysia, Columbia, Brazil, and Saudi Arabia -- are responding to the pressures of the information society. Infrastructural development, policies, and social systems are investigated, and models of information technologies and society are proposed in order to better reference the differences and similarities among the nations profiled. The authors identify the social technology perspective via the assimilation of technology in lifestyles and social systems. From this perspective, the diffusion of technologies is analyzed with a critical eye for theories of culture lag, diffusion and innovation, and technological determinism and liberalism. The social perspective is a new addition to development studies, and the reader may see how, as the global information society comes into focus, the social dimensions are more important than some theorists originally envisioned.
Measures to Address the Impact of Computer Technology on Lesser Developed Countries
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 204
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKComputers in Third-World Schools
Author: David Hawkridge
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-07-27
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1349207934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe reasons why governments of developing countries should put computer technology in their schools are highly controversial, but no less than the actual use being made of these comparatively expensive machines and their software. This book looks at experience in African, Asian and Arabic-speaking countries that already have computers in some of their schools. It is based mainly on research in China, Jordan, Kenya, Mauritius, Sri Lanka and Tunisia. The authors debate policy and practice in the light of experience to date. They identify the rationales commonly deployed by Ministries of Education and international agencies, but argue themselves for a long-term view of the potential of computers to liberalise education, and through such education to reduce dependency and inequity.
Information and Communication Technologies for Development. Strengthening Southern-Driven Cooperation as a Catalyst for ICT4D
Author: Petter Nielsen
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-04-25
Total Pages: 805
ISBN-13: 3030184005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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”.
Exporting Communication Technology to Developing Countries
Author: Komben Emmanuel Ngwainmbi
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780761814191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExporting Communication Technology to Developing Countries analyzes the economic, cultural, educational, and political implications of exporting information technology to Africa. Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi tackles the numerous complexities related to the development of African telecommunications. He not only presents the technological aspects of telecommunications, but effectively depicts the cultural implications that must be considered. Ngwainmbi investigates and evaluates the history of African telecommunications, clearly showing the path that has led to its present state. He then assesses the potential for development within the countries of Africa upon the influx of technology from the outside world.
Capacity Building for IT in Education in Developing Countries
Author: Gail Marshall
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-03-14
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 0387351957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeryn Watson CapBIT 97, Capacity Building for Information Technologies in Education in Developing Countries, from which this publication derives, was an invited IFIP working conference sponsored by Working Groups in secondary (WG 3. 1), elementary (WG 3. 5), and vocational and professional (WG 3. 4) education under the auspices ofIFIP Technical Committee for Education (TC3). The conference was held in Harare, Zimbabwe 25th - 29th August 1997. CapBIT '97 was the first time that the IFIP Technical Committee for Education had held a conference in a developing country. When the Computer Society of Zimbabwe offered to host the event, we determined that the location and conference topic reflect the importance of issues facing countries at all stages of developmen- especially Information Technologies (IT) development. Information Technologies have become, within a short time, one of the basic building blocks of modem industrial society. Understanding IT, and mastering basic skills and concepts of IT, are now regarded as part of the core education of all people around the world, alongside reading and writing. IT now permeates the business environment and underpins the success of modem corporations as well as providing government with cost-effective civil service systems. At the same time, the tools and technologies of IT are of value in the process of learning, and in the organisation and management of learning institutions.
