The digital challenge : information technology in the development context / edited by S. Krishna, Shirin Madon.
Material type: TextSeries: Voices in development managementPublisher: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: xvii, 367 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0754634450
- 9780754634454
- 303.4833091724 21
- T14.5 .D56 2003
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 303.4833091724 DIG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A296764B |
Includes bibliographical references.
List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: Challenges of IT in the Development Context -- 1. Taking Culture Seriously: ICTs Culture and Development -- 2. Knowledge Perspectives on ICT and Development: What the Theory of Knowledge can Add -- 3. IT as an Institutional Actor in Developing Countries -- 4. ICT and Development: East is East and West is West and the Twain may yet Meet -- 5. Research Methodologies for Information Systems in the Development Context: A Tutorial -- 6. Information Systems in Global Organizations: Unpacking 'Culture' -- 7. Information Village: Bridging the Digital Divide in Rural India -- 8. Sustainable Telecentres? Two Cases from India -- 9. An Investigation into Community Development Imperatives at a Rural South African Community Education Center -- 10. Using Health Information for Local Action: Facilitating Organisational Change in South Africa -- 11. Information and Communications Technology for Poverty Reduction in Rural India -- 12. Critical View of E-Governance Challenges for Developing Countries -- 13. The Development of an Information System for District Hospitals - A Case Study from the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa -- 14. Book Towns and the Network Society: New Perspectives on Developing Rural Enterprises -- 15. Mobile Commerce as a Solution to the Global Digital Divide: Selected Cases of E- Development -- 16. ICT Networking in Vietnam: The Limitations of an Information Needs Assessment -- 17. Strategic and Institutional Response to the Digital Challenge: A Perspective on how Global IT Trends are Expressed in Developing Countries -- 18. Mapping the Micro-Foundations of Informational Development: Linking Software Processes, Products and Industries to Global Trends -- 19. Risky Business: A Case Study on Information Systems Development in Nigeria -- 20. Nurturing a Software Industry in Kerala -- 21. The Globalization of Software Outsourcing to Dozens of Nations: A Preliminary Analysis of the Emergence of 3rd and 4th Tier Software Exporting Nations.
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