A new form of industrialization: Microcomputers in developing countries
| Title: | A new form of industrialization: Microcomputers in developing countries |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Publication Date: | 1986 |
| Published In: | Impact Assessment |
| Description: | The Information Revolution is unlike the Industrial Revolution. Information technologies, epitomized by the microcomputer, differ from the technologies of industrialization. These new technologies, by virtue of their accessibility, are appropriate to rapid, though uneven, assimilation by developing countries. Simple benefit/cost estimations demonstrate the economic attraction of adoption of microcomputers. However, the impacts of such adoption include expansion of home markets and increased technical employment, but also overall higher underemployment and forced social change. Impact profiles reflect a nations's current stage of development and a number of specific factors identified through a technological delivery system model. This model offers a planning tool for the Information Revolution. © 1986 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. |
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| Citation: | Impact Assessment. 4. Issue 3-4. 321 - 335. ISSN 0734-9165. DOI 10.1080/07349165.1986.9725790. |
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