The Digital Challenge

Shirin Madon, S Krishna

101: Introduction: Challenges of IT in the Development Context; 1: ICTs and Development: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives; 1: Taking Culture Seriously: ICTs Culture and Development; 2: Knowledge Perspectives on ICT and Development: What the Theory of Knowledge can Add; 3: IT as an Institutional Actor in Developing Countries; 4: ICT and Development: East is East and West is West and the Twain may yet Meet; 5: Research Methodologies for Information Systems in the Development Context: A Tutorial; 6: Information Systems in Global Organizations: Unpacking ‘Culture’; 2: E-Governance and the Digital Divide; 7: Information Village: Bridging the Digital Divide in Rural India 1; 8: Sustainable Telecentres? Two Cases from India; 9: An Investigation into Community Development Imperatives at a Rural South African Community Education Center; 10: Using Health Information for Local Action: Facilitating Organisational Change in South Africa; 11: Information and Communications Technology for Poverty Reduction in Rural India; 12: Critical View of E-Governance Challenges for Developing Countries; 13: The Development of an Information System for District Hospitals – A Case Study from the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa; 3: ICTs and New Organizational Forms; 14: Book Towns and the Network Society: New Perspectives on Developing Rural Enterprises; 15: Mobile Commerce as a Solution to the Global Digital Divide: Selected Cases of E-Development; 16: ICT Networking in Vietnam: The Limitations of an Information Needs Assessment; 17: Strategic and Institutional Response to the Digital Challenge: A Perspective on how Global IT Trends are Expressed in Developing Countries; 4: ICT Development and Global Software Outsourcing; 18: Mapping the Micro-Foundations of Informational Development: Linking Software Processes, Products and Industries to Global Trends; 19: Risky Business: A Case Study on Information Systems Development in Nigeria; 20: Nurturing a Software Industry in Kerala; 21: The Globalization of Software Outsourcing to Dozens of Nations: A Preliminary Analysis of the Emergence of 3rd and 4th Tier Software Exporting Nations