Can Information and Mobile Technologies Serve to Close the Economic, Educational, Digital, and Social gaps and Accelerate Development?
The emergence of information, and more recently, mobile broadband telecommunication technologies, was accompanied by the hype that they could serve to close the economic, educational, digital, and social gaps of our planet among the rich and the poor regions. The hopes, which were based on a number...
| Publicado en: | World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution Vol. 64; no. 4; pp. 254 - 276 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
May2008
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