Research on the Impact of the Information Society in the Global South: An Introduction to SIRCA

摘要: The age of globalisation has been defined in terms access to modern information and communication technologies (ICTs) by some scholars. Scholarly debate about the role ICTs as an agent social organisation transformation raged on before since, from discussions networked society consideration commercial potential technology critiques systemic divides organisation, access, use, adaptation impact. Since these initial considerations, we find ourselves living a world where have diffused widely far-flung corners globe are being deployed confront world’s most complex problems. debates domains such global digital divide continue, which argue that mobile phones led expansion socio-economic opportunity for developing world, those who claim inequalities remain, with resultant limitations their societal We focus here notions impact international development, going beyond issues well documented elsewhere.