ICTs in Developing Countries: Research, Practices and Policy Implications
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), 192 pp.
Contains tables, figures
ISBN 978-1-137-46950-2 (ebook); 978-1-349-56320-3 (print)
"ICTs in Developing Countries is a collection of conceptual and empirical works on the adoption and impacts of ICT use in developing societies. Bringing together a wide range of disciplines and contributors, it offers a rich examination of digital divide and ICT for development both in terms of contextual information and disciplinary perspectives." (Publisher description)
SECTION I: CONCEPTUALISING DIGITAL DIVIDE AND ICT FOR DEVELOPMENT, 1
1 A Critical Review of the ICT for Development Research / Bidit Dey and Faizan Ali, 3
2 Structurational Explication of Technology Adoption in ICT4D: A Throwback to Giddens / Sanjay Bhowmick, 25
SECTION II: DYNAMICS AND KINETICS OF THE ADOPTION, USE AND APPROPRIATION OF ICTS IN DEVELOPING SOCIETIES, 39
3 Impacts of Information and Communication Technology Implementation on Regulated Financial Services: The Case of Swaziland / Hillol Bala, Akshay Bhagwatwar, and Moshtaq Ahmed, 41
4 How Young Chinese Consumers Choose among Different Smartphone Brands: The Importance of Socio-cultural and Marketing Factors / Raffaele Filieri, 59
5 Global Tools Enhance Local Exchange through Community Currency in an Alternate Economy / Liezl Coetzee, 75
6 Appropriation of Mobile Telephony at the Bottom of the Pyramid / Bidit Dey and Ben Binsardi, 97
7 Political Microblogging: A Case Study of Twitter in the 'Shahbag Movement' [Bangladesh] / Faheem Hussain, Mashiat Mostafa, and Zyma Islam, 111
8 Development and Use of Open-Source Software in India / Meera Sarma, 129
SECTION III: POLICY AND PRACTITIONER IMPLICATIONS, 139
9 Effects of ICT Development on Economic Growth in Emerging Asian Countries / Anupam Das, Syeed Khan, and Murshed Chowdhury, 141
10 Digital Divide, Digital Ethics, and E-government / Subhajit Basu, 161
11 Enabling Better Port Governance in Developing Countries: The Role of Information Technology / Karim Sorour and Loay Abdul-Mageed, 171
1 A Critical Review of the ICT for Development Research / Bidit Dey and Faizan Ali, 3
2 Structurational Explication of Technology Adoption in ICT4D: A Throwback to Giddens / Sanjay Bhowmick, 25
SECTION II: DYNAMICS AND KINETICS OF THE ADOPTION, USE AND APPROPRIATION OF ICTS IN DEVELOPING SOCIETIES, 39
3 Impacts of Information and Communication Technology Implementation on Regulated Financial Services: The Case of Swaziland / Hillol Bala, Akshay Bhagwatwar, and Moshtaq Ahmed, 41
4 How Young Chinese Consumers Choose among Different Smartphone Brands: The Importance of Socio-cultural and Marketing Factors / Raffaele Filieri, 59
5 Global Tools Enhance Local Exchange through Community Currency in an Alternate Economy / Liezl Coetzee, 75
6 Appropriation of Mobile Telephony at the Bottom of the Pyramid / Bidit Dey and Ben Binsardi, 97
7 Political Microblogging: A Case Study of Twitter in the 'Shahbag Movement' [Bangladesh] / Faheem Hussain, Mashiat Mostafa, and Zyma Islam, 111
8 Development and Use of Open-Source Software in India / Meera Sarma, 129
SECTION III: POLICY AND PRACTITIONER IMPLICATIONS, 139
9 Effects of ICT Development on Economic Growth in Emerging Asian Countries / Anupam Das, Syeed Khan, and Murshed Chowdhury, 141
10 Digital Divide, Digital Ethics, and E-government / Subhajit Basu, 161
11 Enabling Better Port Governance in Developing Countries: The Role of Information Technology / Karim Sorour and Loay Abdul-Mageed, 171
