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ICTs in Developing Countries

Research, Practices and Policy Implications

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Editors:
  1. Bidit Dey

    1. Brunel University, UK

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  2. Karim Sorour

    1. Northumbria University, UK

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  3. Raffaele Filieri

    1. Northumbria University, UK

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Conceptualising Digital Divide and ICT for Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. A Critical Review of the ICT for Development Research

      • Bidit Dey, Faizan Ali
      Pages 3-23

    3. Structurational Explication of Technology Adoption in ICT4D: A Throwback to Giddens

      • Sanjay Bhowmick
      Pages 25-38

  3. Dynamics and Kinetics of the Adoption, Use and Appropriation of ICTs in Developing Societies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39
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    2. Impacts of Information and Communication Technology Implementation on Regulated Financial Services: The Case of Swaziland

      • Hillol Bala, Akshay Bhagwatwar, Moshtaq Ahmed
      Pages 41-58

    3. How Young Chinese Consumers Choose among Different Smartphone Brands: The Importance of Socio-cultural and Marketing Factors

      • Raffaele Filieri
      Pages 59-73

    4. Global Tools Enhance Local Exchange through Community Currency in an Alternate Economy

      • Liezl Coetzee
      Pages 75-96

    5. Appropriation of Mobile Telephony at the Bottom of the Pyramid

      • Bidit Dey, Ben Binsardi
      Pages 97-110

    6. Political Microblogging: A Case Study of Twitter in the ‘Shahbag Movement’

      • Faheem Hussain, Mashiat Mostafa, Zyma Islam
      Pages 111-128

    7. Development and Use of Open Source Software in India

      • Meera Sarma
      Pages 129-137

  4. Policy and Practitioner Implications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
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    2. Effects of ICT Development on Economic Growth in Emerging Asian Countries

      • Anupam Das, Syeed Khan, Murshed Chowdhury
      Pages 141-159

    3. Digital Divide, Digital Ethics, and E-government

      • Subhajit Basu
      Pages 161-169

    4. Enabling Better Port Governance in Developing Countries: The Role of Information Technology

      • Karim Sorour, Loay Abdul-Mageed
      Pages 171-189

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 191-191
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About this book

ICTs in Developing Countries is a collection of conceptual and empirical works on the adoption and impacts of ICT use in developing societies. Bringing together a wide range of disciplines and contributors, it offers a rich examination of digital divide and ICT for development both in terms of contextual information and disciplinary perspectives.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Brunel University, UK

    Bidit Dey

  • Northumbria University, UK

    Karim Sorour, Raffaele Filieri

About the editors

Bidit Dey is Lecturer in Marketing at Brunel Business School, Brunel University, London. His research interests revolve around the adoption and use of technologies particularly in emerging economies. He has been actively involved in a number of training programmes and consultancy projects. He is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of both the British Academy of Management and the Academy of Marketing.

Karim Sorour is Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Financial Management and the PhD programme leader at the Faculty of Business & Law, Northumbria University, UK. He has more than 13 years' experience in the fields of consultancy, research and executive training. His research interests include corporate governance, corporate social responsibility and management accounting with emphasis on developing countries. He is a member of the Risk, Responsibility, Ethics and Governance research Interest group at Newcastle business school and a certified member of the Institute of Management Accountants (USA). Karim is an editorial board member of the Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences (JEAS) and Cogent Business and Management Journal. Recently, he was elected as a steering committee member of the BAFA- Accounting & Finance in Emerging Economies (AFEE) research interest group.

Raffaele Filieri is Senior Lecturer in the Marketing Subject Group at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK. His main research interests include social media, e-word of mouth, technology adoption and continuance intention, online co-creation and innovation, and knowledge management. Raffaele has published over 40 articles in books, conferences and international peer reviewed journals such as Journal of Business Research, Tourism Management, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Travel Research, Marketing Intelligence & Planning, and Journal of Business Strategy.
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