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The politics of the Internet in Third World development : challenges in contrasting regimes with case studies of Costa Rica and Cuba
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- Creator
- Bert Hoffmann
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Routledge, 2004
- Physical Details
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- xx, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9786610236299, 0415650976, 1135931577, 020333535X, 1135931585, 1280236299, 0415949599, 9780415949590
- OCLC
- ocm55036743, ocn437059565, ocn252733382
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-313) and index.
- Introduction -- The new information and communication technologies (NICT) -- NICT in Third World development : political issues in a transformed telecommunications regime -- The Costa Rican development model and its telecommunications regime -- Active NICT development by state monopoly : a new Costa Rican model? -- Cuba's state-socialist development model and its telecommunications regime -- From the rejection of the Internet to the "informatization of society" : a political anatomy of change -- The politics of the Internet in Third World development : conclusions in comparative perspective
Subjects
- Information technology -- Political aspects -- Developing countries.
- Information technology -- Political aspects -- Costa Rica.
- Information technology -- Political aspects -- Cuba.
- Technology and state -- Developing countries.
- Technology and state -- Costa Rica.
- Technology and state -- Cuba.
- Economic development -- Political aspects.