Science and Technology in Southern Africa and East and South Asia

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-90-04-11413-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 74, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 290 g

Reihe: International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology

The theme of Science, Technology and Development in Southern Africa, and East and Central Asia is threefold. The first component concerns the proposition that no underdeveloped nation will be empowered to meet the needs and aspirations of its citizens without the adoption of advancing Science & Technology. The adoption of S & T processes by examining the questions of political leadership initiation in Botswana and Singapore is explored in chapters one and two.
Component number two engages what is widely regarded as potentially the most enabling cluster of advanced technologies for development in the South: information technologies (IT). Articles three through five take up IT and development in Malaysia, South Africa, South Korea and Namibia.
The final component discusses the crucial subject of technology transfer by comparing Japan’s technology transfer to Southeast Asia and Southern Africa.

Contributors are James Bozeman, Jong-Ho Kim, Takahashi Motoki, Meera Nanda, Rubin Patterson, Sakano Taichi, Ernest J. Wilson III, and William Wresch.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Patterson, Rubin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

RUBIN PATTERSON, A Special Issue on Science & Technology in Southern Africa and East and South Asia

MEERA NANDA,Who Needs Post-Development? Discourses of Difference, Green Revolution and Agrarian Populism in India

WILLIAM WRESCH, Institutional Reactions to the Information Highway: Namibia’s First Year on the Internet

ERNEST J. WILSON III, Development of National Information and Communications Services: A Comparison of Malaysia and South Africa

TAKAHASHI MOTOKI and SAKANO TAICHI, Can “the Miracle” be Replicated?: Official Development Assistance and Technological Transfer from Japan to East Asia and Southern Africa

JONG-HO KIM, A Study on the Implementation Body of Local Informationization in Korea: A Comparative Perspective

RUBIN PATTERSON and JAMES BOZEMAN, Comparativist Study of State Promotion of Science and Technology. Cases: Botswana and Singapore

Contributors

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Über Autor(innen)

Rubin Patterson is Associate Professor at the University of Toledo, Ohio and Visiting Fellow at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management of the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.