What is it about?
The article, titled "ICT and development: east is east and west is west and the twain may yet meet. On the process of implementing and ICT-strategy in the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad)", is included in vol. II, "Developing Countries, the New Economy and the WTO", pp. 347-66. It addresses the pros and cons of using extensive ICT-based communication strategies, within organizations and in communicating with the external world. The external world for an organization involved in development aid involves countries that receive aid, and, crucially, local people that are stakeholders in development projects. This stakeholder category as a rule do not use ICT-based communication, except cell phones.
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Why is it important?
The articles points to the likely present, and certainly future, problems of a global communication network and strategy based wholly on ICTs.
Perspectives
As a social anthropologist I am concerned that increased use of ICTs while marginalizing huge population groups in developing and transition countries, people that are by definition the target groups and recipients of development aid.
Mr Lars T Soeftestad
Supras Ltd.
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This page is a summary of: The WTO, Intellectual Property, E-Commerce and the Internet, September 2009, Edward Elgar Publishing,
DOI: 10.4337/9781785362767.
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