Vital Links for a Knowledge Culture: Public Access to New Information and Communication Technologies

Vital Links for a Knowledge Culture: Public Access to New Information and Communication Technologies
ISBN-10
9287146217
ISBN-13
9789287146212
Category
Political Science
Pages
200
Language
English
Published
2001-01-01
Publisher
Council of Europe
Authors
Ira Nayman, Liss Jeffrey

Description

Citizenship and cultural participation in the 21st century will increasingly require access to new information technologies, and those lacking access will risk social exclusion. This book considers the issues involved in developing a policy framework to close the access gap, in order to maximise the potential for human and cultural development. It contains a number of essays that adopt historical, statistical, theoretical, and descriptive methods to investigate the value of the internet for societies, citizens and communities. It considers how government policy makers and their partners in the corporate and civil society sectors can help foster full participation in the development of a knowledge society.

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