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9780415197045

Europe and Developing Countries in the Globalized Information Economy: Employment and Distance Education

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415197045

  • ISBN10:

    041519704X

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-02-23
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

This book explores the challenges and the opportunities created by the rapid growth of "telematics" as European firms benefit from lower labor costs and access to big new markets in the fields of education and training. It considers job prospects and security for the developing world, and the potential a brain drain.

Table of Contents

List of tables
x
List of figures
xii
List of contributors
xiii
Introduction 1(6)
PART I Information revolution and the new modes of employment and work organisation 7(126)
Is Asia the destination for `runaway' information processing work? Implications for trade and employment
9(19)
Swasti Mitter
Umit Efendioglu
Beyond anecdotes: on quantifying the globalisation of information processing work
28(11)
Ursula Huws
Trade in software services: from international trade to teletrade. The case study of Tata Consultancy services in India
39(14)
N. P. Basrur
Seema Chawla
Telebanking: breaking the logic of spatial and work organisation
53(21)
Geraldine Reardon
Call centres and the prospects for export-oriented work in the developing world: evidence from Western Europe
74(21)
Ranald Richardson
The globalised information society and its impact on the Europe--Maghreb relationship
95(12)
Abdelkader Djeflat
Innovation and competitiveness in complex product systems: the case of mobile phone systems
107(19)
Andrew Davies
The South African mobile phone system
126(7)
David E. Kaplan
PART II Learning with telematics in the globalised information society 133(102)
Europe and developing countries in the emerging on-line education market
135(20)
Maria-Ines Bastos
Lifelong learning policies in a new technological era
155(13)
Albert Tuijnman
Productive two-way collaboration between technologically developed and developing countries in new technologies for education
168(5)
Peter E. Kinyanjui
Testing technology for tele-education: pilot projects at KPN in The Netherlands
173(16)
Eline De Kleine
The Brazilian `TELECURSO 2000': an experience with applications of communications technologies to vocational and continuous education
189(12)
Arlete Azevedo De Paula Guibert
Technologies for distance education in developing countries
201(16)
Wolfram Laaser
KIDLINK---a global network for youth
217(7)
Claus Berg
Distance education in Latin America at the technology cross-roads
224(11)
Fabio Jose Chacon Duque
Conclusions
232(3)
Index 235

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