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Rethinking Development eBook Series

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  • From Rural Village to Smart Village

    Digital Connectivity for Development

    by Heather E. Hudson ...
    Series series Rethinking Development
    This book investigates how the rise of information and communications technologies is transforming life for Indigenous communities and those living in rural and developing areas.The global reach of the internet and the proliferation of mobile phones, broadband and social media have created an interconnected global village of communicators able to access and share information almost instantaneously ... Read more

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  • Africa 2.0

    Inside a continent’s communications revolution

    by Russell Southwood ...
    Africa wired up provides an important history of how two technologies – mobile calling and internet – were made available to millions of Sub-Saharan Africans and the impact they have had on their lives. The book deals with the political challenges of liberalization and privatization that needed to be in place to get these technologies built. It analyses how the mobile phone fundamentally changed ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Regulating Big Tech

    Policy Responses to Digital Dominance

    Edited by Martin Moore, Damian Tambini ...
    Selected chapters from this book are published open access and free to read or download from Oxford Scholarship Online, https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/. Since Digital Dominance was published in 2018, a global consensus has emerged that technology platforms should be regulated. Governments from the United States to Australia have sought to reduce the power of these platforms and ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Sustainable Development Goals Connectivity Dilemma

    Land and Geospatial Information for Urban and Rural Resilience

    Edited by Abbas Rajabifard ...
    The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429290626**, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.**Large-scale migration from rural to urban areas, and between countries, affects sustainable development at local, national, and regional levels. To strengthen urban and rural resilience to global ... Read more

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  • Smart Cities in Asia

    Regulations, Problems, and Development

    Edited by Thanh Phan, Daniela Damian ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book examines different aspects of smart cities, including technology, urban development, sustainable development, finance, and privacy and data protection. It also covers a wide range of jurisdictions in Asia-Pacific: Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The book consists of two main parts. The first part includes general chapters that conceptualize ... Read more

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  • Better Data, Better Decisions: Towards Impactful Forest Monitoring

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Decisions based on data and analysis are often deemed to produce a better outcome and providing decision-makers with information is seen as an important development strategy. The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals reinforces the importance of science-policy linkages. In the forestry sector, efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) have created ... Read more

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  • Working Beyond Borders

    GIS for Geospatial Collaboration

    Edited by Jill Saligoe-Simmel, Maria Jordan ...
    Series Book 16 - Applying GIS
    In today’s world, organizations face a multitude of problems that require an unprecedented need for tools to share information and work better together.In Working Beyond Borders*: GIS for Geospatial Collaboration*, see how government, industries, and others, are using location intelligence and GIS to interconnect people across jurisdictions and sectors, to respond to some of our most critical ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Global Mobile

    Applications and Innovations for the Worldwide Mobile Ecosystem

    Edited by Peter A. Bruck, Madanmohan Rao ...
    Editors Peter A. Bruck and Madanmohan Rao bring together an extraordinary cast of thought leaders and practitioners in this sweeping survey of mobile technology and its impacts on human life, work, and society. Global Mobile examines the foundations of the worldwide mobile ecosystem through an array of case studies and perspectives on how mobile is transforming human enterprise—from business and ... Read more

    $32.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • OECD Digital Economy Outlook 2017

    by Collectif ...
    Series series Science et technologie
    The biennial OECD Digital Economy Outlook examines and documents evolutions and emerging opportunities and challenges in the digital economy. It highlights how OECD countries and partner economies are taking advantage of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and the Internet to meet their public policy objectives. Through comparative evidence, it informs policy makers of regulatory ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Online Identity Theft

    by Collective ...
    Using widely available Internet tools, internet thieves trick unsuspecting computer users into providing personal data, which they then use for illicit purposes, causing mistrust of online payment and banking services. This book defines identity theft and studies how it is perpetrated, outlines what is being done to combat the major types of ID theft, and recommends specific ways that ID theft can ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Convergence In Information And Communication Technology : Strategic And Regulatory Considerations

    by Singh Rajendra; Raja Siddhartha ...
    Growth in the information and technology (ICT) sector has exploded over the past 20 years. Dynamic market and technology developments have led to a phenomenon known as convergence, defined in this volume as the erosion of boundaries between previously separate ICT services, networks, and business practices. Examples include cable television networks that offer phone service, Internet television, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Bridging the Digital Divide in the US

    Planning Innovative State and Local Approaches

    Edited by Mildred E. Warner, Natassia A. Bravo, Duxixi (Ada) Shen ...
    Series series Community Development Research and Practice Series
    The US faces a deep digital divide which cuts across both urban and rural lines, but is most marked in rural, low income, and minority communities. This book presents a multi-level governance framework which explores how local leaders use policy opportunity and community resilience to address inequity in broadband infrastructure. Cases from communities across the US are profiled to show how local ... Read more

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