Bits and atoms : information and communication technology in areas of limited statehood / edited by Steven Livingston and Gregor Walter-Drop.
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 t...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Oxford studies in digital politics.
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| Online Access: | Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Summary: | 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. --Amazon.com. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 195 pages) : illustrations, map. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0199941599 9780199941599 0199941610 9780199941612 0190266902 9780190266905 0199941602 9780199941605 1306136458 9781306136457 |