Information technology and development: creating ‘IT harems’, fostering new colonialism or solving ‘wicked’ policy problems?

The proliferation of information technology o}ers challenges to developing countries which struggle with basic human needs[ Yet the key to their survival may lie in information which is inaccessible to them[ Facing these challenges\ developing nations start from a position of frailty based on low levels of capital^ a limited information infrastructure^ dependencies on foreign aid and multinationals^ and an ever!increasing population growth[ It is essential that foreign technology in~ow is adopted strategically within the pre!existing framework of national policies for technological development and with an emphasis on technology transfer[ The broad policy direction needs to be towards the establishment of an information infrastructure and a contingent perspective for the meta!policy process of designing appropriate information technology infrastructures[ Copyright 1999 John Wiley + Sons\ Ltd[

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