Information Communication Technologies and Human Development: Opportunities and Challenges (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781599040578)

Technology has always played a decisive role in humanity's progress, although the positive impacts technology has on human development may become tainted by the risks it entails. Information Communication Technologies and Human Development: Opportunities and Challenges emphasizes the need to consider the geographic, historic, and cultural context of an information communication technology (ICT) for development initiative, and includes several real examples that show some of the key success factors that have to be taken into consideration when using ICTs for development. Information Communication Technologies and Human Development: Opportunities and Challenges is a tool for practitioners, providing a wide knowledge of several important ICTs for development experiences that have been conducted all over the developing world.

Author: Mila Gascs-Hernandez
ISBN-10: 1599040573
ISBN-13: 9781599040578
Publisher: Idea Group Publishing
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2006
Pages: 350
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.83lbs
Size: 10.30h x 7.24w x 0.95d