Ict for the Next Five Billion People: Information and Communication for Sustainable Development

ISBN-13: 9783642122248 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 124 str.

Picot; Arnold Picot; Josef Lorenz

Opis

Discussing the implications of Internet access for inhabitants of emerging economics, this volume reflects the challenges from the M nchner Kreis with representatives from the ICT industry, academia, non-governmental organizations and governmental development organizations.

Recenzje

From the reviews:

"An edited volume of papers presented at a conference held in Germany. ... Its relative brevity may make it attractive to those seeking a quick oversight of issues and debates, while lectures may recommend it to their students in the hope that the style adopted--transcribed presentations with the accompanying slides--will encourage them to read the various chapters. ... Some of the examples cited in the various chapters are interesting ... . All things considered, one for the library." (Jason Whalley, Communication Booknotes Quarterly, Vol. 42 (3), July-September, 2011)

Spis treści

Opening Remarks.- ICT for the Poor at Large Scale: Innovative Connections to Markets and Services.- People Driven Innovation – How to create the Demand for ICT Solutions in Underserved Areas.- Transfer of services to emerging markets – mobile services, m-payment & m-health.- Incubating Micro Enterprises in Rural South Africa – The Use Case of Virtual Buying Cooperatives.- “What can we learn from the Developing World?” Impact of Mobile Applications from developing Markets on Mature Economies.- Mobile Broadband Community Centers.- Myths about ICT for the Other Billions.- From Voice to Broadband Data – Affordable Communications in Emerging Markets.- Leapfrogging ICT with Cloud Computing in Emerging Countries.- PANEL DISCUSSION ICT and Economics Development in Underserved Markets – A Chicken and Egg Problem.- Closing Remarks.

O autorze

Arnold Picot folgte 1984 dem Ruf auf den Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine und Industrielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre an der Technischen Universität München, bevor er 1988 Vorstand des Instituts für Information, Organisation und Management an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München wurde. Im akademischen Jahr 2004/2005 vertrat er den Konrad Adenauer-Gastlehrstuhl an der Georgetown University, Washington D.C.. Er ist Vorsitzender des Münchner Kreis, Mitglied in diversen wissenschaftlichen Beiräten, Vorständen und Kommissionen sowie in Aufsichts- und Beiräten in der Wirtschaftspraxis und (Mit-)Herausgeber von mehreren Zeitschriften, Schriftreihen und Sammelwerken. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte befassen sich mit Grundfragen wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Theorie, mit Organisation und Unternehmensführung, Wirtschaftsinformatik, Wissensmanagement sowie mit den Wechselwirkungen zwischen neuen Technologien und Strukturen von Unternehmen und Märkten. Seit 1999 ist Picot ordentliches Mitglied der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Am 1. Januar 2007 wurde er Sekretar der Philosophisch-historischen Klasse dieser Einrichtung.

Blurb

Currently, around one to two billion users are able to connect to the Internet, most of them living in the industrialized parts of the world. However, if we want to improve the quality of life of the world population with the help of access to information and education, it is necessary that in the next decade an additional five billion people gain access to the Internet. The next five billion Internet users are mainly living in emerging economies. Therefore, the main challenge is to lower the economic barrier using new approaches for infrastructure deployment and service delivery to billions of people. This book reflects the discussions of the challenges from the Münchner Kreis with representatives from the ICT industry, academia, non-governmental organizations and governmental development organizations, among them many representatives from emerging economies in Africa and Asia. They had highlighted the real demand for ICT, and what impact ICT creates for the wealth and lifestyle of the people.