The Politics of the Internet in Third World Development : Challenges in Contrasting Regimes with Case Studies of Costa Rica and Cuba

ISBN-13: 9780415949590 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 321 str.

Bert Hoffmann

Opis

This book examines the political and developmental implications of the new information and communication technologies (NICT) in the Developing World.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Third World Development and NICT in Political Perspective  1. The New Information and Communication Technologies (NICT): Comparative Experiences and Present Disparities  2. NICT in Third World Development: Political Issues in a Transformed Telecommunications Regime  Part II: Latin America's 'Mixed Model': Costa Rica  3. The Costa Rican Development Model and Its Telecommunications Regime  4. Active NICT Development by State Monopoly: A New Costa Rican Model?  Part III: Latin America's 'Socialist Model': Cuba  5. Cuba's State-Socialist Development Model and Its Telecommunications Regime  6. From the Rejection of the Internet to the 'Informatization of Society': A Political Anatomy of Change  7. The Politics of the Internet in Third World Development: Conclusions in Comparative Perspective

O autorze

Bert Hoffmann is Senior Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies.