[Kictanet] FW: Paper: ICT does not lead to development!

[Wainaina Mungai]

FYI

-----Original Message-----
From: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [mailto:rishab at dxm.org] 
Sent: 05 October 2005 02:49
To: MERIT-L
Cc: mwangi, wangu
Subject: *SPAM* paper: ICT does not lead to development!


dear all,

i thought many of you may find this very readable paper interesting, 
certainly within the remit of UNU-MERIT!

Geography matters: Mapping human development and digital access by 
Stephanie A. Birdsall and William F. Birdsall
First Monday, volume 10, number 10 (October 2005),
URL: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_10/birdsall/index.html

Abstract: Policy circles have long made the assumption that information
and 
communications technologies promote human development. In mapping the
Human 
Development Index (HDI) against the Digital Access Index (DAI) we
explore 
the statistical and spatial relationship between human development and 
digital access. The results suggest information and communications 
technologies may not play as strong a role in promoting human
development 
as is usually asserted and that public policies might need to be
centered 
more on human rather than digital capital.

i have a vested interest in promoting this paper (and exaggerating its 
findings in the subject), as an editor of First Monday, which is now 
perhaps the longest-running and most widely read on-line peer-reviewed 
journal (400 000+ papers downloaded monthly).

best,
rishab