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
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| Titolo: |
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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| 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 |
| 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.: | 9910783835303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Latin American studies (Routledge (Firm))