Tryggvi Thayer, Ph.D.
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New Global Information Technology Report
This years report has been published: World Economic Forum – Global Information Technology Report There’s an incredible amount of movement over the years in the Network Readiness Index. It’s not entirely clear to me what of these changes are due … Continue reading
Report on information access
World Information Access Project – 2006 Briefing Booklet – See also the main web site here. This report is based on existing data from a variety of sources, so don’t expect anything too earth shattering. I think some of the … Continue reading
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ICTs, the Millennium Declaration and the knowledge-based economy
It’s Sunday – time for a big post! A few days ago I posted a couple of things about Negroponte’s $100 laptop. One of the things that I mentioned was the common criticism, which extends to ICTs for development in … Continue reading
Uganda ripe for ICTs
I watched a short version of the film, “Uganda: Education Reforms“, in one of my courses yesterday. I don’t doubt that there is an element of propaganda in the USAID produced film, but I was very impressed with the Ugandan … Continue reading
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Information and knowledge dependency
A couple of interesting readings I’ve been going over that illustrate the “information age” version of dependency theory: Globalisation, ICTs, and the New Imperialism: Perspectives on Africa in the Global Electronic Village. Yunusa Z. Ya’u. A continental Association of African … Continue reading
More on $100 laptops
I wanted to add a little bit concerning the $100 laptop, or the “green machine”, because I’ve seen a lot of things about this on blogs today after the news about Bill Gates’ comments. There seem to be a fair … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Education, ICTs, Leapfrogging development
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