An edition of Information and communication technologies in context
(2007)
Information and communication technologies in context
by David Chapman
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Information and communication technologies in context
2007, Open University
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Table of Contents
Part 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.
Edition Notes
"This publication forms part of an Open University course T324 Keeping ahead in information and communication technologies."--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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