Digital bridges developing countries in the knowledge economy /

• Main Author: Afele, John Senyo C., 1958-
• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2003.
• Subjects: Knowledge management > Economic aspects > Developing countries.; Information technology > Economic aspects > Developing countries.; Telecommunication > Economic aspects > Developing countries.; Digital divide > Developing countries.
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Globalization and global equity are built on the premise of peace. The causes of many divisions and tensions in human communities lie in the imagined or real gain of financial or material assets of some elements of the community to be at the expense of others. The global community however lacks clea...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Standards of knowledge communities
• Nurturing knowledge communities
• Splicing modern knowledge and ancestral wisdom
• Digital bridges and digital opportunities for developing nations
• Globalization and frameworks for digital opportunities
• Capitalizing the knowledge economy of developing nations
• Preservation of cultural identity and preventing piracy of indigenous intellectual properties
• Postlude.