Bits and Atoms : Information and Communication Technology in Areas of Limited Statehood Paperback / softback
Edited by Steven (Professor of Media & Public Affairs and International Affairs, Elliott School of Livingston, Gregor (Managing Director, Collaborative Research Center, Managing Director, Collaborat Walter-Drop
Part of the Oxford Studies in Digital Politics series
Paperback / softback
Description
Bits and Atoms explores the governance potential found in the explosive growth of digital information and communication technology in areas of limited statehood.
Today, places with weak or altogether missing state institutions are tied internally and to the larger world by widely available digital technology.
The chapters in the book explore questions of when and if the growth in digital technology can fill some of the governance vacuum created by the absence of an effective state.
For example, mobile money could fill a gap in traditional banking or mobile phones could allow rural populations to pay for basic services and receive much needed advice and market pricing information.
Yet, as potentially revolutionary as this technology can be to areas of limited statehood, it still faces limitations.
Bits and Atoms is a thought-provoking look at the prospects for and limitations of digital technology to function in place of traditional state apparatuses.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:23/01/2014
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- ISBN:9780199941612
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:23/01/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199941612
