'Examine the impact of modern technology on the development process'
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- Created on: 07-06-17 19:24
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- 'Examine the Impact Of Modern Technology On the Development Process'
- Politically
- creating backbone for political upheaval
- mobile phones in Kenya
- improved communications improves ability to organise protests
- Kabiera (slum outside Nairobi): people protest when bulldozers come to destroy their homes
- people gain power: important for movement towards democracy & fighting corruption
- increases quality of life
- people gain power: important for movement towards democracy & fighting corruption
- Kabiera (slum outside Nairobi): people protest when bulldozers come to destroy their homes
- access to the internet in LEDCs means access to knowledge about rights
- can use to demand their rights
- improved communications improves ability to organise protests
- Question box/one laptop per child
- access to the internet in LEDCs means access to knowledge about rights
- can use to demand their rights
- access to the internet in LEDCs means access to knowledge about rights
- causes conflict and death of civilians in the short term but increases rights in the long term
- decrease in quality of life in the short term
- mobile phones in Kenya
- improved communications improves ability to organise protests
- Kabiera (slum outside Nairobi): people protest when bulldozers come to destroy their homes
- people gain power: important for movement towards democracy & fighting corruption
- increases quality of life
- people gain power: important for movement towards democracy & fighting corruption
- Kabiera (slum outside Nairobi): people protest when bulldozers come to destroy their homes
- however! potential to be radicalised on the internet
- can create increased extremism if local people are in poverty and angry
- do we have a right to limit what people use the internet for?
- creating backbone for political upheaval
- Socially
- improves worldwide education
- Question Box (Uganda & India)
- students access knowledge for improving education (schools have no books)
- improves quality of life through education and better qualified/paid jobs
- people can diagnose/find out how to treat illnesses/call ambulances through the box
- key to development bc decreased death rates, lowers birth rates (DTM), dependency ratios decrease & economic growth
- improves quality of life by decreasing over-population
- key to development bc decreased death rates, lowers birth rates (DTM), dependency ratios decrease & economic growth
- gendered spaces in India, girls are denied access to the box
- issue because prevents women becoming productive members of society and participating in development
- reduces quality of life
- issue because prevents women becoming productive members of society and participating in development
- students access knowledge for improving education (schools have no books)
- Question Box (Uganda & India)
- improves health
- medicines increase well-being by reducing disease
- key to development bc decreased death rates, lowers birth rates (DTM), dependency ratios decrease & economic growth
- improves quality of life by decreasing over-population
- key to development bc decreased death rates, lowers birth rates (DTM), dependency ratios decrease & economic growth
- people can diagnose/find out how to treat illnesses/call ambulances through the box
- medicines increase well-being by reducing disease
- creates inequality
- gendered spaces in India, girls are denied access to the box
- issue because prevents women becoming productive members of society and participating in development
- reduces quality of life
- issue because prevents women becoming productive members of society and participating in development
- Mobile Phones in Kenya
- if married women are found to be getting messages from men it puts them at risk
- violence etc. bc men not used to women being empowered
- again may be only men have access to technology (2/3 phones in Kenya owned by men)
- if married women are found to be getting messages from men it puts them at risk
- gendered spaces in India, girls are denied access to the box
- increases community well-being and empowerment
- improves worldwide education
- Economically
- aids economic development by increasing capacity
- micro-hydro (Nepal, Peru etc)
- electricity makes households more productive bc things take less time
- quality of life improves bc families can generate more income
- electricity makes households more productive bc things take less time
- micro-hydro (Nepal, Peru etc)
- increases income of farmers
- Mobile phones in Kenya
- can research crop prices and contact other buyers to sell crops to
- farmers have power to refuse sales bc they have a choice
- increases income, more disposable income to spend on goods and services
- increases quality of life
- increases income, more disposable income to spend on goods and services
- farmers have power to refuse sales bc they have a choice
- sets up mobile banking (M-PESA)
- creates financial system where there was previously none
- does not comply with Rostow -skips industrialisation stage (pre-conditions and take-off)
- Enables investment and TNCs, easy transfer of money
- to allow TNCs to come in to provide higher pay jobs
- creates financial system where there was previously none
- concerns of loss of culture but even the Masai use them
- can research crop prices and contact other buyers to sell crops to
- Mobile phones in Kenya
- sets up mobile banking (M-PESA)
- creates financial system where there was previously none
- does not comply with Rostow -skips industrialisation stage (pre-conditions and take-off)
- Enables investment and TNCs, easy transfer of money
- to allow TNCs to come in to provide higher pay jobs
- creates financial system where there was previously none
- aids economic development by increasing capacity
- intro
- technology is the adaptation of humans to the environment by modifying it to meet their needs
- development is improving quality of life
- traditional models say industrialisation is necessary for development (provides technology)
- Rostow's model: move from traditional society, through industrialistion into 'developed' economies with high consumption
- technology is necessary for industrialisation
- traditional models say industrialisation is necessary for development (provides technology)
- traditional models say industrialisation is necessary for development (provides technology)
- Rostow's model: move from traditional society, through industrialistion into 'developed' economies with high consumption
- technology is necessary for industrialisation
- Politically
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