Europe and Developing Countries in the Globalized Information Economy: Employment and Distance Education / Edition 1

Europe and Developing Countries in the Globalized Information Economy: Employment and Distance Education / Edition 1

by Maria Ines Bastos, Swasti Mitter
ISBN-10:
041519704X
ISBN-13:
9780415197045
Pub. Date:
06/10/1999
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
ISBN-10:
041519704X
ISBN-13:
9780415197045
Pub. Date:
06/10/1999
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Europe and Developing Countries in the Globalized Information Economy: Employment and Distance Education / Edition 1

Europe and Developing Countries in the Globalized Information Economy: Employment and Distance Education / Edition 1

by Maria Ines Bastos, Swasti Mitter
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Overview

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 prospect of new jobs and novel means of education. However, how secure will these new jobs be? Will a more highly educated work force lead to a brain drain?

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415197045
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 06/10/1999
Series: UNU/INTECH Studies in New Technology and Development , #9
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Bastos, Maria Ines ; Mitter, Swasti

Table of Contents

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

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