Jack J Barry

Information Communication Technology and Poverty Alleviation

Promoting Good Governance in the Developing World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 comparative politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781138587069
• ISBN-10: 1138587060
• Artikelnr.: 53489514

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
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