| Description |
1 online resource (192 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title ; Title page ; Copyright information ; Dedication ; Table of contents ; Acknowledgments ; 1 Introduction ; Development and Politics ; Ethiopia as a Laboratory ; A History of the Future ; Exploring Technical Artefacts and Technological Visions ; Plan of the Book ; 2 Technopolitics, Communication Technologies, and Development Networks of Technologies ; Networks of Discourses ; Networks of Actors ; The Space of Power ; Technopolitics, ICTs, and Development ; 3 Avoiding Politics: International and Local Discourses on ICTs ; Global Discourses Go Local The UNECA and the African Information Society Initiative ; Re-interpreting ICTs: Modernization, Globalization, and Democratization in the Ethiopian Context ; Modernizing Ethiopia ; Globalization is a Double-Edge Sword ; Liberal Democracy and Revolutionary Democracy The Ethiopian Government's Response ; The Marginalization of Non-State Actors in the Development of an Approach to ICTs ; International Alignments: Importing New Solutions to Old Problems ; Disillusionment and Disengagement. |
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Liberal Democracy and Revolutionary Democracy The Ethiopian Government's Response ; The Marginalization of Non-State Actors in the Development of an Approach to ICTs ; International Alignments: Importing New Solutions to Old Problems ; Disillusionment and Disengagement ; Liberal Democracy and Revolutionary Democracy The Ethiopian Government's Response ; The Marginalization of Non-State Actors in the Development of an Approach to ICTs ; International Alignments: Importing New Solutions to Old Problems ; Disillusionment and Disengagement ; The Response of the Diaspora: Failing to Engage and Waving Conflict Conclusion ; 4 A Quest for Hegemony: The Use of ICTs in Support of the Ethiopian National Project ; Ethnic Federalism and the Re-foundation of the Nation-State ; Ethnic Federalism, and Its Discontents ; The Response of the Diaspora: Failing to Engage and Waving Conflict Conclusion ; 4 A Quest for Hegemony: The Use of ICTs in Support of the Ethiopian National Project ; Ethnic Federalism and the Re-foundation of the Nation-State ; Ethnic Federalism, and Its Discontents ; Ethnic Federalism in Practice: Building the State to Build the Nation. |
| Summary |
Gagliardone explores the relationship between politics, development and technological adoption in Africa for scholars of development studies, African studies and political science. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Telecommunication -- Political aspects -- Ethiopia.
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Telecommunication policy -- Ethiopia.
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Information technology -- Political aspects -- Ethiopia.
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Information technology -- Government policy -- Ethiopia.
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Ethiopia -- Politics and government -- 1974-1991.
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Ethiopia -- Politics and government -- 1991-
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Media & Communications. |
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Telecommunications. |
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Information technology -- Government policy |
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Information technology -- Political aspects |
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Politics and government |
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Telecommunication policy |
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Telecommunication -- Political aspects |
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Ethiopia |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1974 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Gagliardone, Iginio. Politics of Technology in Africa : Communication, Development, and Nation-Building in Ethiopia. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2016 9781107177857 |
| ISBN |
9781316840399 (e-book) |
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1316840395 (e-book) |
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9781316840818 |
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1316840816 |
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9781316823149 |
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1316823148 |
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1316629244 |
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9781316629246 |
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1316839974 |
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9781316839973 |
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1316840115 |
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9781316840115 |
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1316840255 |
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9781316840252 |
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9781107177857 |
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1107177855 |
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9781316629246 (paperback) |
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