Time-intensive information technology and human welfare in developing countries

Prometheus: Critical Studies in Innovation

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 165-177

  James, Jeffrey ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Appropriate technology; Digital divide; Synchronous versus asynchronous time; Welfare effects

Indexed keywords

APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY; DEVELOPING WORLD; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; WELFARE IMPACT;

EID: 46749149728     PISSN: 08109028     EISSN: 14701030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08109020802029760     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. A. Gillwald (ed.), Towards an African e-Index, The LINK Centre, Wits University, South Africa, 2005.
2. K. Lancaster, 'A new approach to consumer theory', Journal of Political Economy, 74, 2, 1966, pp. 132-57.
3. F. Stewart, Technology and Underdevelopment, Macmillan, London, 1977.
4. J. James and F. Stewart, 'New products: A discussion of the welfare effects of new products in developing countries', Oxford Economic Papers, 33, 1981, pp. 81-107.
5. G. Becker, 'A theory of the allocation of time', Economic Journal, 75, 1965, pp. 493-517.
6. J. James, Consumption, Globalization and Development, Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2000.
7. Stewart, op. cit. This source contains an illuminating discussion of the package nature of technologies and in particular the idea that developing countries import packages rather than individual techniques.
8. As such it has considerable affinity with the theory of induced innovation, as espoused, among other writers, by Y. Hayami and V. Ruttan, Agricultural Development: An International Perspective, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, 1971.
9. A. Pentland, R. Fletcher and A. Hasson, 'DakNet: Rethinking connectivity in developing nations', Computer, 37, 1, 2004, pp. 4-9.
10. A. Hasson, O. Omojola and V. Serrat, WiFi, Roads, VOIP, and Prepaid Cards: Leapfrogging Rural Communications beyond the Economic Reach of Cellular. Available at: http://www.firstmilesolutions. com/documents/ RoadsWiFiNOIPand repaidCards.pdf, record accessed 5 January 2007.
11. M. Lindow, 'Seeking riches from the poor', Wired News, 23 April. Available at: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,63121,00.htm/, report accessed 29 October 2006.
12. C. Chyau and J. F. Raymond, What Works: First Mile Solutions' DakNet Takes Rural Communities Online. Available at: http://firstmilesolutions.com/documents/MS_Case_Study.pdf, record accessed 25 November 2006.
13. Available at: http://www.indiapost.nic.in/jsp/whatpost.jsp.
14. Most notably, E. F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful, Blond & Briggs, London, 1973.
15. For reasons that are not clear.
16. S. Hughes, 'Community multimedia centres: Creating digital opportunity for all', in B. Girard (ed.), The One to Watch: Radio, New ICTs and Interactivity, FAO, Rome, 2003.
17. Sourceforge, TEK: An Email-Based Web Hrowser. Available at: http://www.tek.sourceforge.net/, report accessed 3 October 2006.
18. Wizzy Digital Courier, How it Works. Available at: http://www.wizzy.org.za/article/articlestatic/19/1/2/, report accessed 12 February 2007.