Exploring the Tension between Modernization and the Deployment of Information and Communication Technologies in Developing Countries: A Case Study of the XO Laptop

dc.contributor.author	Khoury, Cathy
dc.date.accessioned	2013-11-07T19:30:42Z
dc.date.available	2013-11-07T19:30:42Z
dc.date.created	2010
dc.date.issued	2010
dc.degree.level	Masters
dc.degree.name	M.A.
dc.description.abstract	Using the XO laptop as a case study, this project explores the tension, if any, between modernization and the diffusion of information and communication technologies in developing countries. Modernization, the diffusion of innovation, and Burniske's (2003) chain of doing serve as theoretical frameworks to examine new visions of development that One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) aims to introduce to impoverished people on a global scale, with poverty alleviation being their main goal. Employing a qualitative approach, namely document analysis and analysis of online discussions, this research concludes that modernization is still used in new visions of development.
dc.format.extent	132 p.
dc.identifier.citation	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 49-03, page: 1448.
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28649
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-12645
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	University of Ottawa (Canada)
dc.subject.classification	Information Technology.
dc.subject.classification	Mass Communications.
dc.title	Exploring the Tension between Modernization and the Deployment of Information and Communication Technologies in Developing Countries: A Case Study of the XO Laptop
dc.type	Thesis

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