ISBN:
9780191025181
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (381 pages)
Parallel Title:
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DDC:
303.4833
Keywords:
Information technology--Economic aspects
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The book explores the links between information, development, wellbeing and dignity, gathering together a distinguished group of scholars to assess these inter-related concepts in several different areas of the world-Silicon Valley, Costa Rica, Chile, South Africa, Finland, the European Union and China.
Abstract:
Cover -- RECONCEPTUALIZING DEVELOPMENT IN THE GLOBAL INFORMATION AGE -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- List of Tables -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- PART ONE: Analytical Framework -- Models of Development in the Global Information Age: Constructing an Analytical Framework -- What is development? -- Informational development -- Human development -- Cultural identity and development -- Models of development: a typology behind our case studies -- PART TWO: Case Studies -- The Silicon Valley Model: Economic Dynamism, Social Exclusion -- Introduction -- Setting the stage -- Entrepreneurship-led growth -- Innovation as recombination -- Silicon Valley technology evolution -- The globalization of labor markets -- Stagnant employment and growing inequality -- What next? -- Reconstructing the Finnish Model 2.0: Building a Sustainable Development Model? -- Introduction -- Reassessing the state of the Finnish model -- Informational development: sustainable economy -- The case of Nokia -- Expansion of the informational innovation-based economy? -- Human development: the wellbeing society of the Information Age -- The three new challenges of the Information Age -- Lifestyle challenges -- Economic challenges -- Informational challenges -- Historical development of the welfare state 1.0 -- From the welfare state to the wellbeing society: five new giants -- Positive vs. negative -- Proactive vs. reactive -- Subject vs. object -- Holistic vs. partial -- State vs. society -- The renewal of the welfare society in practice -- Culture: the culture of creativity.
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