Europe and Developing Countries in the Globalized Information Economy: Employment and Distance Education

ISBN-13: 9780415197045 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 272 str.

Swasti Mitter; Maria Ines Bastos

Opis

This text explores the impact of information and communications technologies on the changing economic relationship between Europe and the Developing World, in the context of telematics-related trade, work organization and distance education. The contributors elucidate the reasons why the phenomenon of globalization need not be a battleground of competing nations. The essays written by researchers and practitioners, from the European Union and Developing Countries, identify the areas where policy interventions could lead to co-operative competition between the EU and the developing world. The book contains empirical data and should be of particular interest to scholars and policymakers engaged with the questions of spatial division of labour, emerging trading links, information processing work, the brain-drain and tele-education.

Spis treści

Introduction

Part I: Information Revolution and New Modes of Employment and Work Organisation

Chapter 1. Relocation of information processing work: Implications for trade between Asia and the European Union Swasti Mitter and Umit Efendioglu, UNU/INTECH, The Netherlands

Chapter 2. Beyond anecdotes: On qualifying the globalisation of information processing work Ursula Huws, Analytica, London, UK

A non-European counterpoint

Trade in Software services: From international trade to teletrade. The case study of Tata Consultancy services in India. N.P. Basrur, Tata Consultancy Services, Bombay, India and Seema Chawla, UNU/INTECH, The Netherlands

Chapter 3. Externalising information processing work: Breaking the logic of spatial and work organisation Geraldine Reardon, Trade Union Researcher, London, UK

Chapter 4. Call centres and the prospects for export-oriented work in the developing world: Evidence from western Europe Ranald Richardson, University of Newcastle, UK

A non-European counterpoint

The globalised information society and its impact on Europe-Maghreb relations Abdelkader Djeflat, Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France

Chapter 5. Innovation and competitiveness in complex product systems: The case of mobile phone systems Andrew Davies, University of Sussex, UK

A non-European counterpoint

The South Africa mobile phone system Dave Kaplan, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Part II: Learning with telematics in the globalised information society

Chapter 6. Europe and developing countries in the emerging on-line education market Maria Ines Bastos

Chapter 7. Lifelong learning policies in a new technological era Albert Tuijnman, Institute of International Education, Stockholm, Sweden

A non-European counterpoint

Productive two-way collaboration between technologically developed and developing countries in new technologies for education Peter E. Kinyanjui, The Commonwelath of Learning, Canada

Chapter 8. Testing tecnology for tele-education: Pilot projects at KPN in the Netherlands Eline de Kleine, KPN Research, The Netherlands

A non-European counterpoint

The Brazilian 'TELECURSO 2000'. An experience with applications of communications technologies to vocational and continuous education Arlette A. Paula Guibert, National Service of Industrial Apprenticeship, Regional Department of Sao Paolo, Brazil

Chapter 9. Technologies for distance education in developing countries Wolfram Laaser, Fern Universitaet Hagen, Germany

Chapter 10. KIDLINK - Global network for youth Claus Berg, Ministry of Education, Denmark

A non-European counterpoint

Distance education in Latin America at the technology cross- roads Fabio Jose Chacon Duque, Open National University, Venezuela

Conclusions

O autorze

Bastos, Maria Ines ; Mitter, Swasti