For those who cannot afford the (low) price of my edited ICT4D book (published by CUP in 2009), the first chapter as well as the contents page and index can be accessed from Amazon.com!
A summary of the contents is as follows:
- Introduction
- Development agendas and the place of ICTs
- Information and communication in development practices
- The technologies: identifying appropriate solutions for development needs
- ICT4D implementation: policies and partnerships
- ICTs, enterprise and development (Michael Best and Charles Kenny)
- ICTs in education: catalyst for development (Michelle Selinger)
- e-Health: information and communication technologies for health (Yunkap Kwankam, Ariel Pablos-Mendez and Misha Kay)
- e-Government and e-governance (James Guida and Martin Crow)
- Information and communication technologies for rural development (Bob Day and Peter Greenwood)
- Conclusions
The book itself can readily be ordered directly from Cambridge University Press.
Reviews include:
- “ICT4D should be warmly welcomed as the first book that brings some considerable order and authority to the field. It is thorough, accessible, rich with examples, and deserves to be read by a wide swathe of the development community (including those who are not familiar with this crucial topic)” (Jeffrey James in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology)
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