Bits and Atoms: Information and Communication Technology in Areas of Limited Statehood
Bits and Atoms explores the governance potential found in the explosive growth of digital information and communication technology in areas of limited statehood. Today, places with weak or altogether missing state institutions are tied internally and to the larger world by widely available digital technology. The chapters in the book explore questions of when and if the growth in digital technology can fill some of the governance vacuum created by the absence of an effective state. For example, mobile money could fill a gap in traditional banking or mobile phones could allow rural populations to pay for basic services and receive much needed advice and market pricing information. Yet, as potentially revolutionary as this technology can be to areas of limited statehood, it still faces limitations. Bits and Atoms is a thought-provoking look at the prospects for and limitations of digital technology to function in place of traditional state apparatuses.
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Bits and Atoms: Information and Communication Technology in Areas of Limited Statehood
Bits and Atoms explores the governance potential found in the explosive growth of digital information and communication technology in areas of limited statehood. Today, places with weak or altogether missing state institutions are tied internally and to the larger world by widely available digital technology. The chapters in the book explore questions of when and if the growth in digital technology can fill some of the governance vacuum created by the absence of an effective state. For example, mobile money could fill a gap in traditional banking or mobile phones could allow rural populations to pay for basic services and receive much needed advice and market pricing information. Yet, as potentially revolutionary as this technology can be to areas of limited statehood, it still faces limitations. Bits and Atoms is a thought-provoking look at the prospects for and limitations of digital technology to function in place of traditional state apparatuses.
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Bits and Atoms: Information and Communication Technology in Areas of Limited Statehood

Bits and Atoms: Information and Communication Technology in Areas of Limited Statehood

Bits and Atoms: Information and Communication Technology in Areas of Limited Statehood

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Bits and Atoms explores the governance potential found in the explosive growth of digital information and communication technology in areas of limited statehood. Today, places with weak or altogether missing state institutions are tied internally and to the larger world by widely available digital technology. The chapters in the book explore questions of when and if the growth in digital technology can fill some of the governance vacuum created by the absence of an effective state. For example, mobile money could fill a gap in traditional banking or mobile phones could allow rural populations to pay for basic services and receive much needed advice and market pricing information. Yet, as potentially revolutionary as this technology can be to areas of limited statehood, it still faces limitations. Bits and Atoms is a thought-provoking look at the prospects for and limitations of digital technology to function in place of traditional state apparatuses.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780190266905
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 01/07/2014
Series: Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Steven Livingston is Professor of Media and Public and International Affairs at the School of Public Affairs & Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University, and he is the author of When The Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina (Chicago, 2007), Clarifying the CNN Effect (Harvard, 1997), Terrorism Spectacle (Westview, 1994). Gregor Walter-Drop is the Managing Director of the Collaborative Research Center 700 "Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood" at Freie Universität Berlin

Table of Contents

Foreward Sina Odugbemi Chapter 1: Introduction Steven Livingston and Gregor Walter-Drop Part 1: Simulation, Consolidation, Opposition: ICT and Limited Statehood Chapter 2: Information Technology and the Limited States of the Arab Spring Muzammil M. Hussain and Philip N. Howard Chapter 3: The Kremlin's Cameras and Virtual Potemkin Villages: ICT and the Construction of Statehood Gregory Asmolov Chapter 4: E-government as a Means of Development in India J. P. Singh Chapter 5: ICT and Accountability in Areas of Limited Statehood Joseph Siegle Part 2: Substitution: ICT as a Tool for Non-State Governance Chapter 6: FrontlineSMS, Mobile-for-Development and the 'long tail' of governance Sharath Srinivasan Chapter 7: Natural Disasters and Alternative Modes of Governance: the Role of Social Networks and Crowdsourcing Platforms in Russia Gregory Asmolov Chapter 8: Mapping Kibera. Empowering Slum Residents by ICT Primo%z Kova?i? and Jamie Lundine Chapter 9: Crisis Mapping in Areas of Limited Statehood Patrick Meier Chapter 10: From Crowdsourcing to Crowdseeding: The Cutting Edge of Empowerment? Peter van der Windt Chapter 11: Conclusions Steven Livingston and Gregor Walter-Drop Notes References Index
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