Human Development and Global Advancements through Information Communication Technologies: New Initiatives

Human Development and Global Advancements through Information Communication Technologies: New Initiatives

Susheel Chhabra, Hakikur Rahman
Release Date: March, 2011|Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 386
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-497-4
ISBN13: 9781609604974|ISBN10: 1609604970|EISBN13: 9781609604981
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Description & Coverage
Description:

Technology’s role in facilitating and furthering human development is of equal significance to its role in promoting inequality and tension between groups and individuals.

Human Development and Global Advancements through Information Communication Technologies: New Initiatives investigates the role of ICT in advancing economic, social, and political development as well as the potential setbacks experienced as a result of introducing new initiatives. This publication offers strategies for continued societal growth through technology and provides historical perspectives on the processes, procedures, and behaviors that have been impacted as a result of ICT programs.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Accessibility to e-government
  • Collaborative Learning
  • Community Development
  • Culture and language learning
  • Digital Divide
  • E-government management
  • ICT for human development
  • Network cooperation
  • Sustainable IT education
  • Trust and technology in business
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Susheel Chhabra is Dean and Professor at Periyar Management and Computer College, New Delhi, India. He is engaged in training, research and consultancy in Human Resource Development and Management Information Systems domains. He has published books with acclaimed publishers worldwide, several research articles in international journals and holds PhD, MBA (HRM), and MCA. He has extensive experience in publication domain as Editor-in-Chief and organized several conferences, and management development programmes for senior level executives.
Hakikur Rahman is an academic over 30 years has served leading education institutes in Bangladesh and abroad, and established various ICT4D projects funded by ADB, EU, UNDP and World Bank. He is currently serving as the Dean, School of Science and Engineering and Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) of the Presidency University and Director at the Ansted University Sustainability Research Institute. Before joining here, he was a Professor, CSE at the Asian University of Bangladesh. Before that he served the BRAC University as an Associate Professor (Chair, CSE Dept.) and a Post-Doctoral Researcher (Research Associate) at the University of Minho, Portugal under the Centro Algoritmi. He has written and edited over 25 books, more than 50 book chapters and contributed over 200 articles on computer education, ICTs, knowledge management, open innovation, data mining and e-government research in newspapers, journals and conference proceedings. Graduating from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1981, he has done his Master's of Engineering from the American University of Beirut in 1986 and completed his PhD in Computer Engineering from the Ansted University, BVI, UK in 2001; and PhD in ICT from the Empresarial University of Costa Rica in 2011.
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