e-Transformation: Enabling New Development Strategies

• Main Author: Hanna, Nagy K. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Series: Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management
• Subjects: Public finance.; Development economics.; Economic growth.; Economics.; Development Economics.; Public Economics.; Economic Growth.

Could information and communication technology (ICT) become the transformative tool for a new style of global development? Could ICT promote knowledge-based, innovation-driven, and smart, adaptive, participatory development? As countries seek a way out of the present period of economic contraction,...

Table of Contents:

• Why an e-Transformation Strategy?
• Promises and Implications of the Revolution
• Options for ICT-Enabled Development
• Designing e-Development Strategies
• Holistic e-Development
• A Vision of e-Transformation
• Policies and Institutions for a Knowledge Economy
• Human Resources for a Learning Society
• ICT Sector for the Innovation Economy
• Dynamic Information Infrastructure
• Shared Access for Inclusive Society
• Designing e-Development Strategies: Usage
• Government Transformation: Vision and Journey
• Government Transformation: Tools and Challenges
• Enterprise Transformation
• Empowering Poor Communities
• Implementing e-Development Strategies
• Managing Implementation and Risks
• Lessons and Future Directions.