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Information and communication technologies (ICTs) for sustainable development. New Delhi: Daya Publishing House, a division of Astral International, 2013.

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Sonja, Oestmann, ed. Information and communication technologies (ICTs): Poverty alleviation and universal access policies. Nairobi, Kenya: African Technology Policy Studies Network, 2002.

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The impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on rural households. New York: P. Lang, 2003.

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Claveau, Gilles. Information and communications technologies: Statistical review (ICTSR), 1990-1997. [Ottawa, Ont.]: Industry Canada, 1999.

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Technologies of choice?: ICTs, development, and the capabilities approach. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2013.

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Ryan, J. The use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) by large firms in a globalising economy. Dublin: University College Dublin, Graduate School of Business, 1997.

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Tanzania. National information and communications technologies policy. [Dar es Salaam]: Ministry of Communications and Transport, 2003.

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Tanzania. National information and communications technologies policy. [Dar es Salaam]: Ministry of Communications and Transport, 2003.

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Tanzania. National information and communications technologies policy. [Dar es Salaam]: Ministry of Communications and Transport, 2003.

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Schertler, Walter, Beat Schmid, A. Min Tjoa, and Hannes Werthner, eds. Information and Communications Technologies in Tourism. Vienna: Springer Vienna, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-9343-3.

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Naumov, Vladimir. Markets information and communication technology and sales organization. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/21026.

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In the textbook sets out the basic information about the structure of markets, information and communication technologies (ICT), the methods of their research, assessing the attractiveness and forecasting, criteria and methods of segmentation. Deals with the organization of the sales Department of an IT company, involving analysis of organizational forms, population division, methods of remuneration and non-material incentives for experts dealing with sales of ICT products. Sets out the methodology for strategic sales of complex IT solutions, the technique of negotiation and the basics of neurolinguistic programming. The textbook pays attention to the peculiarities of the sales and promotion of ICT products through the Internet, the possibilities of the use of CRM systems. The principles of the organization of partnerships with clients. This methodical approaches to the assessment of the efficiency of the sales Department of an IT company and its sales staff. Discusses the economic evaluation of the project implementation in selling IT solutions. The textbook is prepared in accordance with the requirements of Federal state educational standard of higher education of the last generation. Designed for students enrolled in training 38.03.05 "Business-Informatics", but it can be useful to students from other disciplines and practitioners working in the field of information and communication technologies.
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Department, Trades Union Congress Economic and Social Affairs. New information and communications technologies at work. London: Trades Union Congress, 1998.

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Tinsley, David, and David C. Johnson, eds. Information and Communications Technologies in School Mathematics. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35287-9.

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Bristow, Helen. Information and communications technologies: Implications for sustainable development. Cambridge: UK Centre for Economic and Environmental Development in association with the Sustainable Business Centre, 1997.

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Hitendra Sarma, T., V. Sankar, and Rafi Ahamed Shaik, eds. Emerging Trends in Electrical, Communications, and Information Technologies. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8942-9.

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Attele, Kapila Rohan, Amit Kumar, V. Sankar, N. V. Rao, and T. Hitendra Sarma, eds. Emerging Trends in Electrical, Communications and Information Technologies. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1540-3.

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Chong, Ilyoung, ed. Information Networking: Wireless Communications Technologies and Network Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45801-8.

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S, Shumovskiĭ A., and Rupasov Valery I, eds. Quantum communication and information technologies. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.

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Mirabito, Michael M. The new communications technologies. 2nd ed. Boston: Focal Press, 1994.

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L, Morgenstern Barbara, ed. The new communications technologies. 3rd ed. Boston: Focal Press, 1997.

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Mirabito, Michael M. The new communications technologies. Boston: Focal Press, 1990.

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A compilation of research primers on ICTs for development technologies in Zimbabwe and recommendation on policy strategies. Harare]: Enable Project Initiative, 2007.

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(Zimbabwe), Enable Project Initiative. A compilation of research primers on ICTs for development technologies in Zimbabwe and recommendation on policy strategies. Harare]: Enable Project Initiative, 2007.

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Shortis, Tim. The language of ICT: Information and communication technology. London: Routledge, 2001.

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Gakuru, Mucemi. Inventory of innovative farmer advisory services using information communications technologies. Accra, Ghana: Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa, 2009.

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Barker, Nick. Mind the gap!: Information and communications technologies and small firms. Durham: University of Durham Business School, 2000.

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Peter, O'Connor, Höpken Wolfram, and Gretzel Ulrike, eds. Information and communication technologies in tourism 2008: Proceedings of the international conference in Innsbruck, Austria 2008. Wien: Springer, 2008.

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Beroggi, Giampiero E. G. Operational Risk Management: The Integration of Decision, Communications, and Multimedia Technologies. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1998.

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International, Conference on Emerging Technologies (1st 2005 Islāmābād Pakistan). 2005 International Conference on Emerging Technologies: Icet 2005 : emerging technologies : proceedings : September 17-18, 2005, Islamabad, Pakistan. Piscataway, N.J: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2005.

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India), TENCON (1989 Bombay. Information technologies for the 90's: E²C², energy, electronics, computers, communications. New York, NY: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1989.

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Trends in Electronics Conference (4th 1989 Bombay, India). "Information technologies for the 90's": E²C², energy, electronics, computers, communications. [Bombay, India?]: IEEE, 1989.

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Fazal, Shehina. From highways to I-ways: The information and communications technologies and transport. Salford: University of Salford. International Media Centre, 1995.

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International, Conference on Emerging Technologies (2nd 2006 Peshawar Pakistan). Second International Conference on Emerging Technologies: ICET 2006 : emerging technologies : proceedings : November 13-14, 2006, Peshawar, Pakistan. Piscataway, N.J: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2006.

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Unwin, Tim. Reclaiming Information and Communication Technologies for Development. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198795292.001.0001.

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The development of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) has transformed the world over the last two decades. These technologies are often seen as being inherently ‘good’, with the ability to make the world better, and in particular to reduce poverty. However, their darker side is frequently ignored in such accounts. ICTs undoubtedly have the potential to reduce poverty, for example by enhancing education, health delivery, rural development, and entrepreneurship across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. However, all too often, projects designed to do so fail to go to scale, and are unsustainable when donor funding ceases. Indeed, ICTs have actually dramatically increased inequality across the world. Those with access to the latest technologies and the ability to use them effectively can indeed transform their lives, but those who are left without access have become increasingly disadvantaged and marginalized. The central purpose of this book is to account for why this is so, and it does so primarily by laying bare the interests that have underlain the dramatic expansion of ICTs in recent years. Unless these are fully understood, it will not be possible to reclaim the use of these technologies to empower the world’s poorest and most marginalized. The book is grounded in the Critical Theory of Jürgen Habermas, drawing especially on his notions of knowledge constitutive interests, and a particular conceptualization of the relationship between theory and practice. The book espouses the view that development is not just about economic growth, but must also address questions of inequality.
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15, PAT, Women Connect, and Community Development Foundation, eds. A re port on Women and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for PAT 15. London: CDF, 1999.

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Blackburn, Robert A. The use of information and communications technologies (ICTS) in small business service firms: A report to the Midland Bank. Kingston Business School, 1998.

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Epstein, Ben. Political Choice. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190698980.003.0004.

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Chapter 4 explains the concept of political choice, the second and most important phase of the political communication cycle (PCC). The political choice phase is the process in which political actors choose if and when to incorporate new information and communications technologies (ICTs) into their communication strategies. This chapter details the process that political actors or organizations go through when determining whether to innovate and helps to identify characteristics of those parties that are more likely to innovate earlier than others, known as innovativeness. Political choice is the behavioral component of the political communication cycle. These innovation decisions are the primary determinants regarding if and how ICT innovations are used to change political communication activity. Therefore, political choice is the most important phase of the PCC, differentiating political communication change from social and societal communication change more broadly.
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Mansell, Robin, and W. Edward Steinmueller. Digital Infrastructures, Economies, and Public Policies. Edited by William H. Dutton. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199589074.013.0024.

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This chapter explores the claims about the social and economic benefits and disadvantages of digital infrastructure investment. The differences between economists' and other social scientists' viewpoints affect the ways in which the outcomes of these industrial policy initiatives might be evaluated. The chapter concentrates on Europe and North America. The Digital Agenda is one of several pillars in the 2020 strategy. The data in support of industrial policies and regulatory measures to promote information and communications technologies (ICTs) and broadband networks appears strong. Investment in ICTs will produce productivity growth. The strategies of the large content-providing firms and the network operators affected the opportunities proposed by the availability of the Internet. There are signs that in both Europe and the United States, research has added to the realisation that ICTs are general purpose technologies, and that they are capable of contributing to extensive and pervasive changes in the economy and society.
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Barbosa Neves, Barbara, and Cláudia Casimiro, eds. Connecting Families? Policy Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447339946.001.0001.

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Are information and communication technologies (ICTs) connecting families? And what does this mean in terms of family routines, relationships, norms, work, intimacy and privacy? This book takes a life course and generational perspective covering theory, including posthumanism and strong structuration theory, and methodology, including digital and cross-disciplinary methods. It presents a series of case studies on topics such as intergenerational connections, work–life balance, transnational families, digital storytelling and mobile parenting. It will give students, researchers and practitioners a variety of tools to make sense of how ICTs are used, appropriated and domesticated in family life. These tools allow for an informed and critical understanding of ICTs and family dynamics.
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Dutton, William H. Internet Studies: The Foundations of a Transformative Field. Edited by William H. Dutton. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199589074.013.0001.

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This chapter offers a broad overview of Internet Studies. The key challenge of Internet Studies research focuses on the discovery of concepts, models, theories, and related frameworks that give a more empirically valid understanding of the factors influencing the Internet and its societal implications. The Internet can be used in everyday life and work, and in a converging media world. The study of Internet policy and regulation has focused on issues of freedom of expression, privacy, and ‘Internet governance’. Then, the chapter briefly discusses the issue on the definition of the Internet, and how its resolution is connected to how narrowly or broadly people draw the history of the Internet and the boundaries of the field. It is observed that studies of politics, relationships, news, and other phenomena are exploring the Internet within a larger ecology of information and communications technologies (ICTs). Also, the Internet and related ICTs are globally important.
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McAnany, Emile G. Communication for Development. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036774.003.0004.

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This chapter tackles the issue of how success was defined and measured in the modernization-diffusion paradigm by focusing on three early projects for using the technology of television for teaching purposes, along with their distinct outcomes. It asks how communication as well as information and communication technologies (ICTs) achieve their goals of social change and how we can demonstrate their success. It also explores the working assumptions of educational technology within the general communication for development (c4d) discourse before discussing the three educational television initiatives in more detail, all of them implemented by Stanford University's Institute for Communication Research and involving Wilbur Schramm: the first in American Samoa, the second in El Salvador, and the third in Mexico. These projects illustrate some of the common problems with many c4d projects.
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Epstein, Ben. The Only Constant is Change. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190698980.001.0001.

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The Only Constant Is Change presents and tests the political communication cycle (PCC), a model describing how political actors and organizations make decisions about if, how, and when to innovate their political communication practices. Generally speaking, political communication goals have remained largely stable over time, but the strategies used to accomplish these goals have changed a great deal. The PCC describes the recurring process of political communication innovation through American political history. This model incorporates the technological, political, and behavioral factors influencing how and when changes in political communication activity take place. The PCC is made up of three phases that also serve as an organizational structure for the book. First is the technological imperative, which focuses on how new information and communications technologies (ICT) are developed and what types of ICTs may be more or less likely to be used to innovate political communication. Next, the political choice phase incorporates the behavioral processes embedded in how different types of actors choose whether to innovate or not. This phase is the most critical and is analyzed through case studies evaluating how campaigns, social movements, and interest groups have or have not changed their political communication activities over time. Finally, the stabilization phase encompasses the process of how once innovative techniques become the new status quo though the establishment of new norms, regulations, and institutions. The book explores these changes through historical and contemporary analysis, which offers important context and tools to understand political communication through history and today.
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Gil-Egui, Gisela. E-Government. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.162.

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E-government refers to a set of public administration and governance goals and practices involving information and communication technologies (ICTs). It utilizes such technologies to serve public agencies’ external audiences and constituents. However, the scope of that service is the subject of much debate and, consequently, no consensual definition of e-government had been formulated. The prehistory of e-government resonates with assumptions from the “new public management” (NPM), which proposed a restructuring of governmental agencies by adopting a market-based approach to ensure cost efficiencies in the public sector. Coined in the mid-1990s, the notion of e-government as equivalent to better government, economic growth, human development, and the knowledge society in general was quickly and uncritically accepted by practitioners and scholars alike. As scholars from different disciplines, including politics communication and sociology, paid increasing attention to the intersections of structural factors, hardware, and culture in the adoption and use of ICTs, research on e-government began to show some diversification. By the twenty-first century, the number of e-government websites from local and national administrations has grown sufficiently to allow some generalizations based on empirical observation. Meanwhile critical and comprehensive approaches to e-government frequently adopt a critical stance to denounce oversimplifications, determinisms, and omissions in the formulation of e-governance projects, as well as in the evaluation, adoption, and assessment of e-government effectiveness. Beyond the particularities of each emerging technology, reflection on the intersections between ICTs and government is moving away from an exclusive focus on hardware and functionality, to consider broader questions on governance.
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Rogerson, Kenneth. International Communication in Social Movements and Interest Groups. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.226.

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Ideas and people may be mobilized in order to influence the thinking of policy makers or society to either promote a specific point of view or enact policy in the form of laws or programs that benefit the ideas or people. This mobilization of ideas and people is known as political advocacy, which falls into two broad categories: social action and social mobilization, which can—but not necessarily—give rise to social movements, and interest and lobbying groups. According to Mancur Olson, groups are organized to pursue a common good or benefit. The success or failure of such groups can be explained using models such as the classical model, the resource mobilization model, and the “political process” model. The success of political advocacy is contingent upon a number of interrelated concepts and characteristics, including access to resources (money, people, and time), good leadership, a sense of identity or common focus, and the opportunity to be heard. A movement can distribute its message to its target audience—for example, policy makers, opinion leaders, potential participants, or the public at large—by means of information and communications technologies (ICTs). Two theses are used to assess the effectiveness of ICTs in political advocacy: the mobilization thesis and the reinforcement thesis. The inclusion of international communication has enriched our understanding of how, when, where, and why political advocacy is or is not effective.
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Stromer-Galley, Jennifer. Political Discussion and Deliberation Online. Edited by Kate Kenski and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199793471.013.015.

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As information and communication technologies have diffused, scholars have turned attention to online informal political discussion and formal deliberation because of the importance of online political talk for constructing society and informing government policy. This chapter examines the research on both formal deliberation and informal discussion online, identifies the importance of this research area, signals its major findings, and examines key unanswered questions. Along the way it argues that more research is needed to understand why women and minorities are less likely to talk politics online; better conceptual clarity is needed about the phenomenon of interest; more experimental work is required to isolate the causes and consequences of channel characteristics and mechanics that produce higher-quality discussion and decisions; and more work is needed that extends across information and communication technologies (ICTs), cross-culturally, and beyond democratically-governed societies.
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Stromer-Galley, Jennifer. Political Discussion and Deliberation Online. Edited by Kate Kenski and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199793471.013.015_update_001.

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As information and communication technologies have diffused, scholars have turned attention to online informal political discussion and formal deliberation because of the importance of online political talk for constructing society and informing government policy. This chapter examines the research on both formal deliberation and informal discussion online, identifies the importance of this research area, signals its major findings, and examines key unanswered questions. Along the way it argues that more research is needed to understand why women and minorities are less likely to talk politics online; better conceptual clarity is needed about the phenomenon of interest; more experimental work is required to isolate the causes and consequences of channel characteristics and mechanics that produce higher-quality discussion and decisions; and more work is needed that extends across information and communication technologies (ICTs), cross-culturally, and beyond democratically-governed societies.
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McAnany, Emile G. Communication in the Lives of the Globe. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036774.003.0001.

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This book examines the history of the role of communication as a tool for bringing development and social change. Drawing on the author's own experience accumulated over the past almost fifty years of professional interest in communication for development (c4d), the book investigates how both theory and practice evolved along with the technologies. In particular, it considers what is done for and to people by large outside institutions that provide funding and what people find to do for themselves. It also evaluates where we are today in the long-term struggle to bring development and social change through information and communication technologies (ICTs) as well as interpersonal communication. Furthermore, it discusses four paradigms that have arisen in the social change and development arena over the past two decades: modernization-diffusion paradigm, critical or dependency paradigm, participation paradigm, and social entrepreneurship. The book concludes by tackling the question about how the c4d field might improve.
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Unwin, Tim. The Internet and Development: A Critical Perspective. Edited by William H. Dutton. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199589074.013.0025.

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This chapter extends a critical perspective on the economic impact of the Internet to the study of information and communications technologies (ICTs) for development, concentrating on the effects of the Internet on the lives of some of the poorest people and most marginalized communities. The distinction between absolute and relative poverty is central to an understanding of the role of technology, and the Internet in particular, in development. Furthermore, the implications of the relationships between the Internet and ‘development’ are assessed in terms of development as economic growth, development as social equality, and development as political freedom. The Internet has been shaped and developed explicitly by the commercial interests largely of US capital. The success of the Internet in delivering development objectives depends very much on how such objectives are defined.
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Stein, Elizabeth Ann. Information and Civil Unrest in Dictatorships. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.35.

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Considering incidents that make headline news internationally, given the modern information and communication technology revolution, the facility of citizens to rapidly mobilize represents a considerable threat to autocratic survival. While the speed with which popular movements emerge has increased exponentially, and the news of their existence spreads faster and farther, civil unrest has threatened the stability and survival of dictators for centuries. The paranoia and machinations of dictators depicted in films, such as the portrayal of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland, while sensationalized, capture the astounding array of threats with which unelected leaders must concern themselves. On the one hand, they must worry about insider threats to their standing, such as conspiratorial plots from people within the dictator’s own circle or mutiny among government soldiers. On the other hand, dictators also must monitor threats originating from non-regime actors, such as new alliances forming among once-fragmented opposition groups or the possibility of sustained insurgency or a popular revolution. From force to finesse, autocratic leaders have developed a broad and evolving range of tactics and tools to diminish both internal and external domestic threats to their reign. The success of dictators’ endeavors to insulate their regimes from forces that might challenge them depends on accurate and reliable information, a resource that can be as valuable to the leader as would a large armory and loyal soldiers. Dictators invest significant resources (monetary as well as human capital) to try to gather useful information about their existing and potential opponents, while also trying to control and shape information emitted by the regime before it reaches the public. New information and communication technologies (ICTs), which have drawn a great deal of scholarly attention since the beginning of the 21st century—present both risks and rewards for dictators; inversely they also create new opportunities and hazards for citizens who might utilize them to mobilize people opposed to the regime. While civil unrest could encompass the full range of domestic, nonmilitary actors, there also needs to be a specific focus on various forms of mass mobilization. Historically, more dictators have been forced from office by elite-initiated overthrows via coups d’état than have fallen to revolution or fled amid street protests. Civil unrest, in its many forms, can affect autocratic survival or precipitate regime breakdown. While mass-based revolutions have been a relatively rare phenomenon to date, the actions of many 21st-century dictators indicate that they increasingly concern themselves with the threats posed by popular protests and fear its potential for triggering broader antigovernment campaigns. The ease of access to information (or the lack thereof) help explain interactions between authoritarian regimes and citizens emphasizes. The role of information in popular antigovernment mobilization has evolved and changed how dictators gather and utilize information to prevent or counter civil unrest that might jeopardize their own survival as well as that of the regime.
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McAnany, Emile G. The Future. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036774.003.0009.

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This chapter reflects on the future prospects for the field of communication for development (c4d) and social change. It begins with an example that illustrates different thinking about poverty worldwide and the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in helping to solve the problem: Kiva organization's use of the internet to get people involved in contributing to change in developing countries. It then discusses passing paradigms, shifting discourses, and pragmatic practices in the field of c4d, suggesting that c4d paradigms do not necessarily disappear but are absorbed in practice by institutions and reappear in different policies or practices at different times. It also describes current contexts and challenges facing c4d, along with new ways to approach them. The chapter concludes with five suggestions of how universities and research centers might contribute to reinvigorating the c4d field in the next decade, one of which is how to adapt the paradigm of social entrepreneurship to c4d.
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