By Bert Hoffmann
This booklet examines the political and developmental implications of the hot details and communique applied sciences (NICT) within the 3rd global. while the idea that of the 'digital divide' has a tendency to target technological and quantitative signs, this paintings stresses the the most important position performed by way of the political regime style, the pursued improvement version and the explicit configuration of actors and decision-making dynamics. starkly contrasting 3rd international nations, state-socialist Cuba and the Latin America's "show-case democracy" Costa Rica, have been selected for 2 in-depth empirical state reviews.
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For a country-specific breakdown with detailed data, see table 4 on page 123). If we have emphasized that the global disparities in NICT use and diffusion tend to follow the existing fault lines of social and economic inequality, we have to stress that this is not to say that NICT development takes place in a uniform way across all Third World countries or that it is a mere function of GDP or similar indicators. This certainly is not so. In fact, we insist on the necessity of national case studies precisely because of the fact that form and pace of diffusion and use as well as the political, social, and economic consequences of the NICT are greatly shaped by the specific conditions of any particular country: by its political regime and development model, as well as by the concrete interplay of different actors, norms and regulatory arrangements and decisions made at the national level.
GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES AND GLOBAL DISPARITIES: A FIRST ASSESSMENT OF THE UNEQUAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE NICT The dynamics of the worldwide NICT diffusion have been indeed impressive. If in August 1981 there was a worldwide total of 213 Internet host computers—that is, a computer or server directly linked to the global Internet network, usually serving a variety of other client computers—and a few thousand users, these numbers since have multiplied at a breathtaking speed. 5 However, the distribution of growth was far from equal.
S. courts—though effectively cut short by the Bush administration in 2002-brought the dangers of such a concentration of economic and technological power to broad public attention. GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES AND GLOBAL DISPARITIES: A FIRST ASSESSMENT OF THE UNEQUAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE NICT The dynamics of the worldwide NICT diffusion have been indeed impressive. If in August 1981 there was a worldwide total of 213 Internet host computers—that is, a computer or server directly linked to the global Internet network, usually serving a variety of other client computers—and a few thousand users, these numbers since have multiplied at a breathtaking speed.