Ian Smillie

Gebundenes Buch

Mastering the Machine Revisited: Poverty, Aid and Technology

Beschreibung

Mastering the Machine Revisited is about the connection between poverty, aid and technology. It is about the search driven today by greater extreme poverty than has ever been known, and by a realization that the technologies applied to the problem have severe limitations.

Autor

Ian Smilie has worked at Tufts and Tulane Universities and as a development consultant with many Canadian, American and European organizations. He served on a UN Security Council Expert Panel examining the relationship between diamonds and weapons in West Africa, and he helped develop the 48-government 'Kimberley Process, ' a global certification system to halt the traffic in conflict diamonds.

Produktdetails

• Poverty, Aid and Technology
• Verlag: Practical Action Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: Dezember 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 162mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 653g
• ISBN-13: 9781853395147
• ISBN-10: 1853395145
• Artikelnr.: 22233360