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Development as freedom in a digital age : experiences from the rural poor in Bolivia /
Under what conditions can new technologies enhance the well-being of poor communities? The study designs an alternative evaluation framework (AEF) that applies Amartya Sen's capability approach to the study of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in order to place people's we...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
The World Bank,
[2015]
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| Colección: | World Bank e-Library.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author""; ""Abbreviations and Acronyms""; ""PART I: ICTs and the Well-Being of Poor Communities""; ""1. Introduction: People, Technology, and Well-Being""; ""Emerging Evidence on the Links between ICTs and Development""; ""The Role of Telecenters for Socioeconomic Development""; ""The Link between E-Governance, Participation, and Community Development""; ""Evaluating the Impact of ICTs on the Well-Being of Poor Communities: The Need to Go beyond Conventional Approaches""
- ""The Multidimensional Approach to Well-Being Based on the Capability Approach""""Focus on Indigenous Peoples and the Impact of New Technologies on Their Well-Being""; ""Key Factors for Establishing a Link between ICTs and Poor People�s Human Development""; ""The Theoretical Framework: Placing Human Well-Being at the Center of Impact Evaluations""; ""Toward an Alternative Evaluation Framework of ICT Programs""; ""Operationalizing the AEF for Research in Bolivia""; ""Structure of the Book""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""2. The Methodology""; ""Methodological Approach""
- ""Definition of ICTs""""Methods of Data Collection""; ""Typology of Intermediary Organizations""; ""Methodological Challenges""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""3. Poverty, Inequality, and Human Development of Indigenous Peoples in Bolivia""; ""Identifying Indigenous Peoples""; ""The Demographics of Indigenous Peoples""; ""National and Indigenous Poverty""; ""Regional Distribution of Poverty""; ""The Unsatisfied Basic Needs Approach""; ""Income Inequality""; ""The Human Development of Indigenous Peoples""; ""Underlying Causes of Indigenous Poverty""; ""Notes""; ""References""
- ""PART II: The Empirical Evidence""""4. Poor People�s Information Needs, Perceptions, and Expectations about the Internet""; ""Principal Findings""; ""Organization of the Chapter""; ""Data Analysis""; ""Survey Results of Non-ICT Users""; ""Information Gap by Program""; ""Communication Flows""; ""Value and Expectations: The Potential of the Internet to Promote Indigenous Development""; ""Conclusions""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""5. Beyond Access to Meaningful Use""; ""Principal Findings""; ""Data Analysis""; ""Role of Demographic and Socioeconomic Factors in Explaining ICT Use""
- ""Educational Attainment""""Unsatisfied Basic Needs and Human Development""; ""Ethnicity""; ""Municipal Illiteracy Rates""; ""Role of Individual Factors in Explaining ICT Use""; ""Role of Socioeconomic Factors in Explaining ICT Use""; ""Role of Intermediary Organizations in Explaining ICT Use""; ""Cross-Validation of the Results: Multivariant Regression Analysis of the ECADI National Household Survey""; ""Conclusions""; ""References""; ""6. Beyond Use: Expanding Poor People�s ICT Capabilities""; ""Principal Findings""; ""Data Analysis""; ""Empirical Results of ICT User Survey""