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MISTICA: ICT4Dev into context- Hispanics surf Spanish

From: Daniel Pimienta ([email protected])
Date: Sun Feb 03 2002 - 17:36:10 AST

>Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:05:01 -0500
>From: SDNP Newsmaster <[email protected]>
>Subject: NITNews for 31 January 2002
Extracts:

>---- Putting context into ICTs in international development: an
>institutional networking project in Vietnam
>This paper questions the adequacy of the technological orientation present
>in many popular discussions over the role of information and
>communications technologies (ICTs) in international development. In
>particular, the paper considers the impact of technology on how programme
>goals and development problems are understood, by relating critical
>computer design literature to the experience of deploying an
>Internet-based research network in a university capacity-building
>programme in Vietnam. The current technology-focused discourse leads such
>work to tend to be envisioned merely in terms of selected means, such as
>ICT connectivity or skills. However, it is only through discussion of the
>ends, not means, of ICT deployment that the complexity of such deployment
>can be adequately understood.
>http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=3984&do=gpage
>
>---- Majority of U.S. Hispanics Prefer to Surf the Net in Spanish
>According to the Roslow Hispanic Internet Usage Study, Hispanics are
>spending 55 percent of their time using the Internet in Spanish instead of
>English, as compared to 39 percent last spring. And, also for the first
>time, Hispanic incidence of Internet use has reached the 50 percent mark
>(among U.S. Hispanics 16 years and older).
>http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=3979&do=gpage

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