Latin America On-Line

The Internet, Development, and Democratization

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19002088
AutoresMargaret Everett (Portland State University, autor correspondente)
Ano1998
Volume57
Fascículo4
Páginas385-393
Data de publicação1998-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHuman Organization (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0018-7259 • E-ISSN: 1938-3517
EditoraSociety for Applied Anthropology (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.17730/humo.57.4.f017g41312871148
OpenAlexW2028277340
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas7

Increasingly, aid agencies are turning to information technology as a key to promoting development and political reform. Internet proponents view information as critical to solving such problems of environmental destruction, disease, and authoritarianism. While the Internet poses intriguing possibilities for enhancing economic competitiveness and political pluralism, it is also creating new forms of exclusion and may lead to the neglect of other basic development issues. Moreover, the proponents of the Internet expansion in the Americas risk exacerbating rather than diminishing the dependency and uneven growth of previous development schemes. This article explores the current state of the Internet in Latin America and identifies some of the contradictions which are apparent in the discussion and use of this new technology in the region

Democracy · Democratization · Latin Americans · Line (geometry) · Political science · Politics · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies · E-Government and Public Services · ICT Impact and Policies · Law