This book collects an authoritative core of research investigating the notion that information communication technologies (ICTs) have the potential to improve the lives of people and contribute to enhancing social conditions in developing countries through such concepts as the Knowledge Society,...

1. Knowledge, culture, and society in the information age / Pier Cesare Rivoltella -- 2. Digital divide / -- Liudmila Burtseva ... [et al.] -- 3. Global digital divide, global justice, cultures, and epistemology / Soraj Hongladarom -- 4. Digital literacy and cultural mediations to the digital...

"This book investigates the role of ICT in advancing economic, social, and political development as well as the potential setbacks experienced as a result of introducing new initiatives"--Provided by publisher.

"This book includes evolution, planning, development, implementation and practical implications of diversified development practices around the world, focusing on socio-economic empowerment and regional developments through ICTs; it provides recommendations, success cases and failures of those...