ICT, Innovation Systems and the Role of Universities in Societal Development : a (post) colonial strain?

• The aim of this book is to develop knowledge and understanding about how ICT can be involved in local and national innovation systems in developing countries. Special attention is paid to the role of the university as an important stakeholder in local and national development processes. For this purpose, the interdisciplinary group of researchers has made the study carrying the question about the prerequisites for postcolonial identities to make their mark on a national situated ICT development and implementation. The study addresses the emerging implosion of postcolonial situations and ICT development. The theory frame of feminist technoscience studies is included in the analysis as a special resource.

• informationsteknik, IT, innovationssystem, postkolonialism, utvecklingsländer, universitet som aktör, feministisk teknovetenskap, teknikpolitik

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Media and Communications (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

information technology

ICT

post colonialism

feminist technoscience

technopolitics

developing countries

universities as stakeholders

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