The missing link ‐ information1
| Autor: | Gerard I. Kenney |
|---|---|
| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
| Předmět: | |
| Zdroj: | Information Technology for Development. 6:33-38 |
| ISSN: | 1554-0170 0268-1102 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02681102.1995.9525254 |
| Popis: | The chicken‐and‐egg question of whether telecommunications development follows economic development or whether economic development follows telecommunications development has long plagued those who would promote telecommunications as an important, even essential, prerequisite for socio‐economic development. Attempting to relate past GNP performance to numbers of telephones has never successfully settled the issue. Instead of looking into the past to resolve the question, a look into the future of what the socio‐economic situation of countries would be like in the absence of means of transporting, acquiring, manipulating and storing information rapidly demonstrates the absolutely essential nature of information and knowledge in this on‐going era of the information revolution. Modern telecommunications is obviously an infrastructural necessity for forging the link in the information/socio‐economic development chain. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) can be effective in fostering the ... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|