Europe and Developing Countries in the Globalized Information Economy (eBook, ePUB)

Employment and Distance Education
Redaktion: Bastos, Maria Ines; Mitter, Swasti

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the challenges and the opportunities created by the rapid growth of 'telematics'. European firms benefit through lower labour costs and access to big new markets in the fields of education and training. At the same time European governments are concerned about jobs disappearing. For the developing world, there is the brightest

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134642564
• Artikelnr.: 42653420

Autorenporträt

Bastos, Maria Ines ; Mitter, Swasti

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Information Revolution and New Modes of Employment and Work Organisation Chapter 1. Relocation of information processing work: Implications for trade between Asia and the European Union Swasti Mitter and Umit Efendioglu
UNU/INTECH
The Netherlands Chapter 2. Beyond anecdotes: On qualifying the globalisation of information processing work Ursula Huws
Analytica
London
UK A non-European counterpoint Trade in Software services: From international trade to teletrade. The case study of Tata Consultancy services in India. N.P. Basrur
Tata Consultancy Services
Bombay
India and Seema Chawla
UNU/INTECH
The Netherlands Chapter 3. Externalising information processing work: Breaking the logic of spatial and work organisation Geraldine Reardon
Trade Union Researcher
London
UK Chapter 4. Call centres and the prospects for export-oriented work in the developing world: Evidence from western Europe Ranald Richardson
University of Newcastle
UK A non-European counterpoint The globalised information society and its impact on Europe-Maghreb relations Abdelkader Djeflat
Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lille
France Chapter 5. Innovation and competitiveness in complex product systems: The case of mobile phone systems Andrew Davies
University of Sussex
UK A non-European counterpoint The South Africa mobile phone system Dave Kaplan
University of Cape Town
South Africa Part II: Learning with telematics in the globalised information society Chapter 6. Europe and developing countries in the emerging on-line education market Maria Ines Bastos Chapter 7. Lifelong learning policies in a new technological era Albert Tuijnman
Institute of International Education
Stockholm
Sweden A non-European counterpoint Productive two-way collaboration between technologically developed and developing countries in new technologies for education Peter E. Kinyanjui
The Commonwelath of Learning
Canada Chapter 8. Testing tecnology for tele-education: Pilot projects at KPN in the Netherlands Eline de Kleine
KPN Research
The Netherlands A non-European counterpoint The Brazilian 'TELECURSO 2000'. An experience with applications of communications technologies to vocational and continuous education Arlette A. Paula Guibert
National Service of Industrial Apprenticeship
Regional Department of Sao Paolo
Brazil Chapter 9. Technologies for distance education in developing countries Wolfram Laaser
Fern Universitaet Hagen
Germany Chapter 10. KIDLINK - Global network for youth Claus Berg
Ministry of Education
Denmark A non-European counterpoint Distance education in Latin America at the technology cross- roads Fabio Jose Chacon Duque
Open National University
Venezuela Conclusions