Binding: Paperback
Description: Bits and Atoms explores the governance potential found in the explosive growth of digital information and communication technology in areas of limited statehood. Today places with weak or altogether missing state institutions are tied internally and to the larger world by widely available digital technology. The chapters in the book explore questions of when and if the growth in digital technology can fill some of the governance vacuum created by the absence of an effective state. For example mobile money could fill a gap in traditional banking or mobile phones could allow rural populations to pay for basic services and receive much needed advice and market pricing information. Yet as potentially revolutionary as this technology can be to areas of limited statehood it still faces limitations. Bits and Atoms is a thought - provoking look at the prospects for and limitations of digital technology to function in place of traditional state apparatuses.
Title: Bits And Atoms Information And Communication Technology In Areas Of Limited Statehood
Brand: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780199941612
Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Date: 1/7/2014
Series: Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
Category: Internet & Www Industries