xxii, 257 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- International inequality and national poverty -- Parts I and II: the digital divide and digital preparedness -- Part III: leapfrogging, appropriate technology and poverty -- Conclusions -- pt. I The digital divide -- 2.From origins to implications:...

Contents note continued: Concepts, explanations and measures of sharing -- Empirical evidence -- Conclusions -- 5.From the relative to the absolute digital divide in developing countries -- The relative versus absolute divide -- The needfor a refocus towards the absolute digital divide -- The behavi...

Contents note continued: Digital divide complacency in the literature -- Are poor countries really f̀alling behind'? -- Can one define away the digital divide? -- Why worry about the digital divide? -- Conclusions -- pt. II Digital preparedness -- 9.The ICT Development Index and the digital divide:...

Contents note continued: Conclusions -- 13.Information technology and the poor in developing countries -- The poor as multiple selves -- The framework -- Mechanisms involving mobile phones -- Mechanisms involving the Internet -- Conclusions -- 14.New technology in developing countries: a critique of...

Contents note continued: The role of time -- An alternative approach -- Conclusions -- 18.The Internet and poverty in developing countries: welfare economics versus a functionings-based approach -- The functionings-based approach versus traditional welfare economics -- Application to the Internet an...

Contents note continued: Blending the telephone and the Internet for rural extension -- The comparative neglect of combining voicemail with public payphones -- Telephone browsing of the Internet -- Conclusions.