International Science and Technology: Philosophy, Theory and Policy

by Mekki Mtewa

Overview

This book formulates both a theory of science and technology, a philosophy guiding its development and utilization as well as foundations for developing a policy on science and technology. The book should enrich debate and future searches for the paradigm in international science and technology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349116744
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/1990
Edition description:	1st ed. 1990
Pages:	201
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Part 1 Science and technology for development theory and practice, Mekki Mtewa. Part 2 Educational policy: educational ideologies and technical development in the Third World, Mehrangiz Najafizadeh and Lewis A.Mennerick; a research model applied to a computer project in Swaziland, Martha Tyler John and Floyd Idwal John; cultural constraints in the transference of computer technologies to Third World countries, Elia Chepaitis. Part 3 Institutional policy: experts, advisers and consultants in science and development, Mekki Mtewa; strategies for communicating about management with respective individuals in development organizations, Larisa Schnider Gruning and James Grunig; Southern Africa urban development - prospectives for involvement of American institutions, Marvel Lang. Part 4 Communication policy: global telecommunications strategies for developing countries, Peter Habermann; a model for telecommunication development in Africa, John James Haule; information markets, telecommunications and China's future, William B.Crawford. Part 4 Economic policy: United States bilateral foreign aid and multilateral aid - a comparison, David Porter; economic development in Latin America - the Brazilian experience, Eufronio Carreno Roman. Part 6 Conclusion: science and technology for development - toward a corroborative philosophy of efficienciticity, Mekki Mtewa.

Editorial Reviews

Noting that for all the grand schemes and selfless effort, the technological gap between the industrialized and the developing countries continues to widen, Mtewa, guiding light of the Association for the Advancement of Policy, Research and Development in the Third World, has assembled a dozen essays to provide an unrosy view of the failures of the past decade and to use those to plot a new course of strategy. Acidic paper. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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