TY - BOOK
T1 - Information communication technologies and human development
T2 - Opportunities and challenges
AU - Gascó-Hernández, Mila
AU - Equiza-López, Fran
AU - Acevedo-Ruiz, Manuel
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Technology has always played a decisive role in humanity's progress, although the positive impacts technology has on human development may become tainted by the risks it entails. Information Communication Technologies and Human Development: Opportunities and Challenges emphasizes the need to consider the geographic, historic, and cultural context of an information communication technology (ICT) for development initiative, and includes several real examples that show some of the key success factors that have to be taken into consideration when using ICTs for development. Information Communication Technologies and Human Development: Opportunities and Challenges is a tool for practitioners, providing a wide knowledge of several important ICTs for development experiences that have been conducted all over the developing world.
AB - Technology has always played a decisive role in humanity's progress, although the positive impacts technology has on human development may become tainted by the risks it entails. Information Communication Technologies and Human Development: Opportunities and Challenges emphasizes the need to consider the geographic, historic, and cultural context of an information communication technology (ICT) for development initiative, and includes several real examples that show some of the key success factors that have to be taken into consideration when using ICTs for development. Information Communication Technologies and Human Development: Opportunities and Challenges is a tool for practitioners, providing a wide knowledge of several important ICTs for development experiences that have been conducted all over the developing world.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84899384224&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4018/978-1-59904-057-8
DO - 10.4018/978-1-59904-057-8
M3 - Book
AN - SCOPUS:84899384224
SN - 9781599040578
BT - Information communication technologies and human development
PB - IGI Global
ER -