The Information Society Agenda: Prospects and Problems

ICT for Development (ICT4D) by Oxford University

Jan 16, 201476:25Education

Discussion of dominant approaches by intergovernmental agencies to information society policy and the prospects for introducing critical perspectives that acknowledge the power relations which inform information society...

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