Hooker, Neal H. (author), Ernst, Stan (author), Heilig, Julia (author), and Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, Ohio State University, Columbus.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: C25711
Examines issues of connectivity, language and content of the internet. Concludes that "in reality the internet concentrates economic activity and power more narrowly in one group. As a result there is a real risk that we are moving towards a two-tier technology society that perpetuates the old distinctions between North and South."
"While the net may provide a new medium for dissent and opposition, its impact is offset by two principal factors." Factors cited include the digital divide and growing commercialism.
International: Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 167 Document Number: C27925
Notes:
Revised version of a paper prepared for the national workshop on "Strategies for applying information and communication technologies for rural development," in Chennai, Tami Nadu, India, May 17-18, 2001. 15 pages.
