This original contribution to the debate on developing countries and IT suggests that the benefits of the internet can be passed on via an intermediary
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This original contribution to the debate on developing countries and IT suggests that the benefits of the internet can be passed on via an intermediary
Includes bibliographical references (p. [117]-122) and index
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Cover; Information Technology and Development; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 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 telecentresConclusions; 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 telephones6. 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; Gyandoot ; 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; Notes; References; Index