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

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ISBN: 9780415197045 | 041519704X
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Copyright: 2/23/2000

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This book explores the challenges and the opportunities created by the rapid growth of "telematics" as European firms benefit from lower labor costs and access to big new markets in the fields of education and training. It considers job prospects and security for the developing world, and the potential a brain drain.

List of tables

List of figures

xii

List of contributors

xiii

Introduction

(6)

PART I Information revolution and the new modes of employment and work organisation

(126)

Is Asia the destination for `runaway' information processing work? Implications for trade and employment

(19)

Swasti Mitter

Umit Efendioglu

Beyond anecdotes: on quantifying the globalisation of information processing work

(11)

Ursula Huws

Trade in software services: from international trade to teletrade. The case study of Tata Consultancy services in India

(14)

N. P. Basrur

Seema Chawla

Telebanking: breaking the logic of spatial and work organisation

(21)

Geraldine Reardon

Call centres and the prospects for export-oriented work in the developing world: evidence from Western Europe

(21)

Ranald Richardson

The globalised information society and its impact on the Europe--Maghreb relationship

(12)

Abdelkader Djeflat

Innovation and competitiveness in complex product systems: the case of mobile phone systems

107

(19)

Andrew Davies

The South African mobile phone system

126

(7)

David E. Kaplan

PART II Learning with telematics in the globalised information society

133

(102)

Europe and developing countries in the emerging on-line education market

135

(20)

Maria-Ines Bastos

Lifelong learning policies in a new technological era

155

(13)

Albert Tuijnman

Productive two-way collaboration between technologically developed and developing countries in new technologies for education

168

(5)

Peter E. Kinyanjui

Testing technology for tele-education: pilot projects at KPN in The Netherlands

173

(16)

Eline De Kleine

The Brazilian `TELECURSO 2000': an experience with applications of communications technologies to vocational and continuous education

189

(12)

Arlete Azevedo De Paula Guibert

Technologies for distance education in developing countries

201

(16)

Wolfram Laaser

KIDLINK---a global network for youth

217

(7)

Claus Berg

Distance education in Latin America at the technology cross-roads

224

(11)

Fabio Jose Chacon Duque

Conclusions

232

(3)

Index

235

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