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Re-connect Canada: A Community-based e-development Strategy |
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Journal of the Knowledge Economy2. 1 |
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Tuesday, March 01, 2011 |
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ICT for MDGs
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Nov 23, 2011 |
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Re-connect Canada: A Community-based e-development Strategy This essay provides a country case for the interplay in an e-development strategy between top-down policy directions and grassroots community-level initiatives and how this interplay and balance can evolve over time reflecting the nature of a networked economy The authors suggest that an Internet culture and the building of community-level capacity for e-development can compensate for limited e-leadership at the national level particularly for countries like Canada where significant levels of connectivity and e-literacy have been achieved The coverage of Canadian e-development initiatives in this essay is selective The aim is to illuminate the political economy and policy reform process shaping e-development This country case shows the influence of the political and cultural factors and the Internet in particular on the role of ICT in transforming existing structures and creating collaborative ecologies and innovative commons
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