Title
Cyber-behaviors and development impacts in Latin America
Date Issued
01 January 2012
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
book part
Author(s)
de Mendoza C.
George Washington University
Publisher(s)
IGI Global
Abstract
While the current scientific literature is quite scarce for most of the developing world, several leading researchers have made great strides in understanding the role of cyber technologies and related information and communication technologies (ICT) in economic development. A good proportion of this work lays on interventions in the regions of South Asia and Africa. However, cyber-behavior research focused on Latin America has been very limited. Very recently, a group of researchers took a bold step to apply rigorous statistical tools in a systematic way to evaluate how these technologies contributed to the success of several development projects in the region of Latin America. This chapter draws on several of the background papers of the book "Development Connections: Unveiling the Impact of Information Technologies," edited by Alberto Chong, as well as some of the book's chapters. It summarizes a number of specific cyber-interventions in the areas of finance, education and poverty-reduction that took place in Latin America and that may lead to a better understanding of the impact of interventions to know what works, what does not, and why.
Start page
1250
End page
1263
Volume
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la Información
Bioinformática
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84898233853
Resource of which it is part
Encyclopedia of Cyber Behavior
ISBN of the container
978-146660315-8
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus