Knowledge societies --in a nutshell : information technology for sustainable development /
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| Author / Creator: | Credé, Andreas. |
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| Imprint: | Ottawa : The Centre, ©1998. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 49 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11118439 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- INTRODUCTION
- The key opportunities
- CHAPTER 1 IDENTIFYING NEW ICT OPPORTUNITIES
- New types of learning and education
- A wired civil society
- New forms of commerce
- Opportunities for trade
- Potential uses of ICTs
- ICTs and employment
- New technical infrastructures
- CHAPTER 2 BUILDING THE CAPABILITIES
- Illiteracy44; skills44; and knowledge45;based development
- New social capabilities
- Tacit knowledge and the learning economy
- Acquiring new skills
- Lifelong learning
- Tools for building innovative knowledge societies
- CHAPTER 3 CONSTRUCTING THE INFRASTRUCTURE
- The Missing Link revisited
- Communication45;network development
- Expansion of the Internet
- Benefits of network expansion
- ICT production capacity
- Building new coalitions of resources
- CHAPTER 4 ADDRESSING KEY GOVERNANCE ISSUES
- International institutions governing ICTs
- Opening up but keeping control
- Governing trade in services and equipment
- Protecting intellectual property
- Privacy and information security
- Governance and the networld economy
- CHAPTER 5 FORMULATING ICT STRATEGIES
- Technology choices and capacity45;building
- Strategies for market liberalization
- Promoting improved access
- Harnessing ICTs for development
- Integrating ICT strategies
- Guidelines for ICT strategies
- CHAPTER 6 ICTs FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
- APPENDIX I46; ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
- ABOUT THE INSTITUTIONS
- ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
- Last Page.