Information Technology in the Third World: Can I.T. Lead to Humane National Development?

1985 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 106
Author(s):  
Robert Lawless ◽  
William James Stover
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Third World ◽  
National Development ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

Third World Mass Communications: A Basic Bibliography

1982 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-103
Author(s):  
John A Lent
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Third World ◽  
New World ◽  
National Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mass Communications ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
The Third ◽  
Information Order ◽  
The Third World

To produce a selected bibliography on Third World mass communications has become rather difficult in recent years, because of an abundance of materials. The controversy that led to and nourished the New World and International Information Order augmented the literature by many fold and in some cases impressively — though not always differently, as catch phrases and arguments on all sides of the debate were repeated almost slavishly in packaged articles and books reminiscent of the works of a public relations practitioner. The growth of journalism training, research and educational institutions — and a corresponding increase in teachers, researchers and writers — in Third World nations also produced a glut of information. Because of these factors and a space limitation, this bibliography is devoted almost entirely to books and monographs published between 1971 and 1981. A list of periodicals which carry Third World mass communications articles is added, with notations on special issues devoted to the topic. To do more than this concerning periodical literature is prohibitive in this article. Categories used are bibliographies; mass communications, broken down into general, advertising and public relations, broadcasting, film and press; communication and development in the Third World (including media's role in social change, national development and integration, rural development and revolutionary movements); communications, politics and governments in the Third World (including law of the press, political processes and ideologies, right to communicate and press freedom); and the New World and International Information Order and the Third World (including media imperialism, flow of news and information and national sovereignty). This listing in no way is meant to be exhaustive; instead, it is designed to serve as a basic bibliography of the most recent books and monographs written by researchers and scholars throughout the world, but mainly from the United States.

scholarly journals Beyond Cycles of Hegemony: Economic, Social, and Military Factors 

1995 ◽  
pp. 34-48
Author(s):  
Walter L. Goldfrank
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Third World ◽  
National Development ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
The Third ◽  
Closing The Gap ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Changing World

As we survey the changing world on the eve of the 21st century, scholars confront empirical puzzles and interpretive uncertainties. Those of us who identify with worldwide social and political movements seeking more democracy, more equality, more justice, and more rationality find ourselves at once free and daunted. We are free, finally, from the albatross of repressive party-states calling themselves "socialist," from the illusion that social-democratic welfare states are trending toward perfection, from the myth that national development in the Third World is closing the gap. And we are daunted by the double task of (1) reconstructing a strategy of global transformation and (2) making a viable movement out of the multiple oppositional fragments scattered about the global landscape.

Information In and On Africa

2000 ◽  
pp. 301-322
Author(s):  
Roger Pfister
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
National Development ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
The Third ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Pessimistic Attitude ◽  
Right To Information ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Third World

Talking about Africa’s right to information means talking about communication in Africa and in the Third World generally. In Africa the channels of communication were underdeveloped or inappropriate as a consequence of the continent’s colonial past. The resulting lack of information was, among other reasons, an impediment to national development in African states after their independence. Until the 1980s, the principal means of communication were newspapers, books, telephones, radio and TV. However, with the development of modern technology, the proliferation of satellites, the advance in the computer industry and, most recently, with the advent of Internet new forms of communication were added. This contribution outlines the initiatives and discussions from the 1960s to the 1980s on the relationship between economic development and access to information in the Third World generally and in Africa in particular. The second part deals with the new communication technologies, the areas of application in Africa and their possible impact on Africa’s development. The author takes a rather pessimistic attitude as far as the advancement of sustainable development in Africa through information technology is concerned, unless such technology is applied to local circumstances.

Education and National Development in the European Socialist States: A Model for the Third World?

1975 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter D. Connor
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Education ◽  
Third World ◽  
National Development ◽  
Skewed Distribution ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Perceived Needs ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Third World

The problems created by rapid expansion of educational systems in the underdeveloped states of Asia, Africa and South America are the subject of a large and diverse literature.1 Familiar to even the most cursory student of this literature are several themes: (1) the ‘devaluation’ of elementary education, which no longer affords entry into white-collar positions as it did in the late colonial periods; (2) the persistent and diffuse ‘elite’ connotations of higher (and even secondary) education, the supply of which, while increasing, remains relatively short; (3) the skewed distribution, within higher education, toward ‘traditional’ disciplines—notably law and the humanities—reflecting the values of the colonial system and running against perceived needs for technological skills; and finally, the concern over the ‘destabilizing’ consequences of a growth in educational access and aspirations disproportionate to the economy's ability to ‘fit’ much of tne-educated-manpower into the system.

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