Ilse Oosterlaken

Technology and Human Development

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book introduces the capability approach - in which wellbeing, agency and justice are the core values - as a powerful normative lens to examine technology and its role in development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 343g
• ISBN-13: 9781138780576
• ISBN-10: 113878057X
• Artikelnr.: 41853937

Autorenporträt

Ilse Oosterlaken is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Appropriate Technology Movement and the Capability
Approach 2. The Details of Technological Design 3. Embedding Technology in
Socio-Technical Networks 4. A Capability Approach of ICT for Development
(ICT4D) 5. Conclusion