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008 100125s2007 enka b 001 0 eng d
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245 00 $aInformation and communication technologies in context.
246 14 $aBlock 3 :$bInformation and communication technologies in context
260 $aMilton Keynes :$bOpen University,$c2007.
300 $a132 pages :$billustrations ;$c27 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aT324 Keeping ahead in information and communication technologies ;$vBlock 3
500 $a"This publication forms part of an Open University course T324 Keeping ahead in information and communication technologies."--Title page verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPart 1 Keeping ahead by avoiding failure -- 1. Socio-technical systems and failures -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Intelligent transport systems -- 1.3 Public transport information systems -- 1.4 Summary -- 2. Systems terminology -- 2.1 Boundaries and environments -- 2.2 Subsystems, hierarchies and processes -- 2.3 Components of the environment -- 2.4 Structure and emergence -- 2.5 Summary -- 3. Why do failures occur? -- 4. The systems questions -- 4.1 Questions on the system and its environment -- 4.2 Questions on processes -- 4.3 Questions on structures -- 4.4 Technical questions -- 4.5 Pragmatic questions -- 4.6 Total or basic questions -- 4.7 Questions on decisions, policies and the future -- 4.8 Comments on the questions -- 5. Tackling congestion -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Roadside information systems -- 5.3 Congestion reduction system -- 5.4 National Traffic Control Centre -- 5.5 Summary -- 6. Road pricing -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The system -- 6.3 The technology -- 6.4 Why reduce congestion? The Eddington Report -- 6.5 Complexity and practicality -- 6.6 Questions of performance -- 7. Conclusion -- Answers to self-assessment activities -- References -- Part 2 ICTs in the unequal world -- 1. Introduction : the ICT revolution and developing countries -- 2. The digital divide -- 2.1 Examining lived experience : a case study of the digital divide in Uganda -- 2.2 Activities of the project -- 2.3 Five days in the life of the project -- 2.4 Connecting the technological and the social -- 2.5 ICT provision in Uganda, and bridging the digital divide -- 2.6 Summary -- 3. Keeping ahead with mobile telephony -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Telephones in Africa -- 3.3 An approach to critical reading -- 3.4 Reading articles on mobile telephony and international development -- 3.5 Summary -- 4. Keeping ahead in ICTs in the developing world -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Access to the technology -- 4.3 Rapid development : China and India -- 4.4 Conclusion -- Glossary -- Answers to the self-assessment activities -- References -- Acknowledgements.
650 0 $aInternet.
650 0 $aInformation technology.
650 0 $aData transmission systems.
650 7 $aData transmission systems.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00887993
650 7 $aInformation technology.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00973089
650 7 $aInternet.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00977184
700 1 $aChapman, David.
700 1 $aFortune, Joyce.
700 1 $aJohnson, Hazel.
700 1 $aJones, Allan.
700 1 $aKear, Karen.
700 1 $aWhite, Diana.
700 1 $aWilson, Gordon.
830 0 $aT324 Keeping ahead in information and communication technologies ;$vBlock 3.
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