Egypt: building an information society for international development
This article examines Egypt's attempt to build an information society for international development as defined by four key variables: an IT infrastructure, a knowledge economy, a public culture of discursive openness, and formal legal institutions which support the digital age. The main finding is that given serious infrastructural challenges, as well as a tendency towards political and economic centralisation, the efforts of a series of government-led projects are unlikely to affect all but the top of the Egyptian social pyramid for the immediate future.
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2003
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Authors: | Wheeler, Deborah L. |
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Review of African Political Economy. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 0305-6244. - Vol. 30.2003, 98, p. 627-642
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Taylor & Francis Journals |
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