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The politics of the Internet in Third World development : challenges in contrasting regimes with case studies of Costa Rica and Cuba / / Bert Hoffmann



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Autore: Hoffmann Bert Visualizza persona
Titolo: The politics of the Internet in Third World development : challenges in contrasting regimes with case studies of Costa Rica and Cuba / / Bert Hoffmann Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (285 p.)
Disciplina: 303.48/33/091724
Soggetto topico: Information technology - Political aspects - Developing countries
Information technology - Political aspects - Costa Rica
Information technology - Political aspects - Cuba
Technology and state - Developing countries
Technology and state - Costa Rica
Technology and state - Cuba
Economic development - Political aspects
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-313) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- The new information and communication technologies (NICT) -- NICT in Third World development : political issues in a transformed telecommunications regime -- Structures and transformation of the Costa Rican development model -- Active NICT development by state monopoly : a new Costa Rican model? -- Structures and transformation of Cuba's state-socialist development -- From the rejection of the Internet to the "informatization of society" : a political anatomy of change -- The politics of the Internet in Third World development : conclusions in comparative perspective.
Sommario/riassunto: This book examines the political and developmental implications of the new information and communication technologies (NICT) in the Third World. Whereas the concept of the 'digital divide' tends to focus on technological and quantitative indicators, this work stresses the crucial role played by the political regime type, the pursued development model and the specific configuration of actors and decision-making dynamics. Two starkly contrasting Third World countries, state-socialist Cuba and the Latin America's ""show-case democracy"" Costa Rica, were chosen for two in-depth empirical country s
Titolo autorizzato: The politics of the Internet in Third World development  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-135-93157-7
1-135-93158-5
1-280-23629-9
9786610236299
0-203-33535-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910807797403321
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Serie: Latin American studies (Routledge (Firm))