Information Communication Technology and Poverty Alleviation: Promoting Good Governance in the Developing World

ISBN-13: 9780367665968 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 246 str.

Jack J. Barry

Opis

This book argues that that access to Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) can play a role in a whole host of development goals, and in the effective realization of many human rights for low-income citizens in developing countries. This book will interest researchers of development and communication technologies, and compa

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Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction: The ICT and Poverty Conundrum

Chapter 2: Theoretical Development: Enter Governance

Chapter 3: Quantitative Analysis: A Bird’s Eye View

Chapter 4: Case Study Mexico: Technological Bubbles and Blackholes

Chapter 5: Where Governance and Human Rights Meet: An Exploration of Mexico’s Constitutional Amendment Declaring Internet Access a Human Right

Chapter 6. Don’t be Evil: In the Digital Age Access to the Internet Should be a Human Right

Conclusion

O autorze

Jack J. Barry is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Connecticut, USA