Mastering Digital Transformation: Towards a Smarter Society, Economy, City and Nation (Innovation, Technology, and Education for Growth) - Softcover

Hanna, Nagy K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785604651 ISBN 13: 9781785604652

Publisher: Emerald Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

The information and communication technology revolution offers the promise of transforming economies and societies, and the risks of missing on a powerful techno-economic revolution and wasting scarce resources without much developmental impact. Some countries have mastered the process of digital transformation, and continue to realize substantial economic benefits. Others made substantial investments in the ICT infrastructure, with marginal impact. What makes for these differences among countries? Nagy Hanna presents a systematic approach to integrate ICT into development policies and programs across sectors of economy and society. This book bridges the current disconnect between the ICT specialists and their development counterparts in various sectors so as to harness the ongoing ICT revolution to maximize development impact and minimize downside risks. Posing a holistic and strategic framework that draws on lessons learned across all sectors to guide national leaders and development practitioners interested in moving from vision to action, it is an important work for researchers and students of ICT who aim to pursue innovative, inclusive and sustainable development paradigms.

About this title

About the Author:

Nagy K. Hanna - University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Review:

Author Nagy K. Hanna presents readers with a systematic approach to the integration of information and communication technology into development policies and programs across a variety of economic and social sectors. The author covers the roots and expressions of the information and communication technology revolution, the promotion of an inclusive information society, the development of smart cities, and a wide variety of other related subject matter over the book's three parts and fifteen chapters. The author is a consultant, policy adviser, and visiting faculty member of Wits University, South Africa. --Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold Inc. Portland, OR (protoview.com)

About this edition

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1785604651
• ISBN 13: 9781785604652
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432