Title Knowledge societies --in a nutshell : information technology for sustainable development / Andreas Credé & Robin Mansell for the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development and the International Development Research Centre.

Publication Info.	Ottawa : The Centre, [1998]
	©1998

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Description	1 online resource (xi, 49 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
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Contents	Cover -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- The key opportunities -- CHAPTER 1 IDENTIFYING NEW ICT OPPORTUNITIES -- New types of learning and education -- A wired civil society -- New forms of commerce -- Opportunities for trade -- Potential uses of ICTs -- ICTs and employment -- New technical infrastructures -- CHAPTER 2 BUILDING THE CAPABILITIES -- Illiteracy44; skills44; and knowledge45;based development -- New social capabilities -- Tacit knowledge and the learning economy -- Acquiring new skills -- Lifelong learning -- Tools for building innovative knowledge societies -- CHAPTER 3 CONSTRUCTING THE INFRASTRUCTURE -- The Missing Link revisited -- Communication45;network development -- Expansion of the Internet -- Benefits of network expansion -- ICT production capacity -- Building new coalitions of resources -- CHAPTER 4 ADDRESSING KEY GOVERNANCE ISSUES -- International institutions governing ICTs -- Opening up but keeping control -- Governing trade in services and equipment -- Protecting intellectual property -- Privacy and information security -- Governance and the networld economy -- CHAPTER 5 FORMULATING ICT STRATEGIES -- Technology choices and capacity45;building -- Strategies for market liberalization -- Promoting improved access -- Harnessing ICTs for development -- Integrating ICT strategies -- Guidelines for ICT strategies -- CHAPTER 6 ICTs FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT -- APPENDIX I46; ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- ABOUT THE INSTITUTIONS -- ABOUT THE PUBLISHER -- Last Page.
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Subject	Information technology -- Developing countries.
	Information technology.
	Developing countries.
	Technological innovations -- Developing countries.
	Technological innovations.
	Sustainable development -- Developing countries.
	Sustainable development.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Mansell, Robin.
	International Development Research Centre (Canada)
	United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development.
Other Form:	Print version: Credé, Andreas. Knowledge societies --in a nutshell. Ottawa : The Centre, ©1998 0889368589 (OCoLC)39355142
ISBN	1552500594 (electronic book)
	9781552500590 (electronic book)
	1280717432
	9781280717437
	0889368589
	9780889368583

Title Knowledge societies --in a nutshell : information technology for sustainable development / Andreas Credé & Robin Mansell for the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development and the International Development Research Centre.

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