Information Technology, Development, and Social Change (Routledge Studies in Development and Society)

by Fay Patel (Editor), PrahaladSooknanan (Editor), Giselle Rampersad (Editor), Anuradha Mundkur (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2012

  $156.41

  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.