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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| 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 |
Table of Contents:
- Information technology and the limited states of the Arab spring / Muzammil M. Hussain and Philip N. Howard
- The Kremlin's cameras and virtual Potemkin villages : ICT and the construction of statehood / Gregory Asmolov
- E-government as a means of development in India / J.P. Singh
- ICT and accountability in areas of limited statehood / Joseph Siegle
- FrontlineSMS, mobile-for-development, and the "long tail" of governance / Sharath Srinivasan
- Natural disasters and alternative modes of governance : the role of social networks and crowdsourcing platforms in Russia / Gregory Asmolov
- Mapping Kibera. Empowering slum residents by ICT / Primož Kovačič and Jamie Lundine
- Crisis mapping in areas of limited statehood / Patrick Meier
- From crowdsourcing to crowdseeding : the cutting edge of empowerment? / Peter van der Windt.