The Politics of the Internet in Third World Development: Challenges in Contrasting Regimes with Case Studies of Costa Rica and Cuba - Brossura

Hoffmann, Bert

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ISBN 10: 0415650976 ISBN 13: 9780415650977

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2013

Riassunto

This book examines the political and developmental implications of the new information and communication technologies (NICT) in the Third World. Whereas the concept of the "digital divide" tends to focus on technological and quantitative indicators, this work stresses the crucial role played by the political regime type, the pursued development model and the specific configuration of actors and decision-making dynamics. Two starkly contrasting Third World countries, state-socialist Cuba and the Latin America's "show-case democracy" Costa Rica, were chosen for two in-depth empirical country studies.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Bert Hoffmann is Senior Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0415650976
• ISBN 13: 9780415650977
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 342
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania