 | ISBN: 978-1-58826-458-9 $47.00 | |
| 2006/160 pages/LC: 2006006309 iPolitics: Global Challenges in the Information Age | ||
Drawing on macroeconomic data as well as eye-opening anecdotes, Charles Kenny underscores the trade-offs and constraints inherent in the new communications technology. His work raises serious questions about the advisability of channeling scarce investment funds into the Internet when countries are confronting more basic challenges in the realm of education, health, and infrastructure.
"Kenny skillfully demonstrates that providing Internet access to all citizens of developing countries will reap few benefits.... [An] exceptionally well-thought-out work."—Library Journal
"An important cautionary tale.... Kenny demonstrates that the irrational exuberance directed toward the internet as a tool for international development needs serious tempering."—Michael Best, Georgia Institute of Technology