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- Title: Information Technology, Development, and Social Change
- Author : Fay Patel, Prahalad Sooknanan, Giselle Rampersad & Anuradha Mundkur
- Release Date : January 31, 2012
- Genre: Sociology,Books,Nonfiction,Social Science,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 7108 KB
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The speed and cost effectiveness of new information technology has prompted many to view these innovations as a panacea for social and economic development. However, such a view flies in the face of continuing inequities in education, health, food, and infrastructure. This volume explores these issues – along with questions of access, privilege, literacy, training, and the environmental and health effects of information technologies in the developing world – arguing that a higher level of development does not always result from a higher level of technologization.