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...

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Published in:	World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution Vol. 64; no. 4; pp. 254 - 276
Main Authors:	Laouris, Ylannis, Laouri, Romina
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd May2008
Subjects:	Technological innovations Telecommunication network management Aims & objectives of information services Message processing (Telecommunication) Information technology & economics Sustainable development Computer software
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