By its presentation, you might think that Charles Kenny new book, Overselling the Web: Development and the Internet might be seen the product of a cyberskeptics. I’d rather call it the product of cyberbalance.
Just reading the preface and first chapter, the personal references (Juan Navas-Sabater, Richard Heeks or Michael Best, among others) and a cautious point of view the like of “yes, but…” clearly show that it is calm criticism — not destruction — what seems to lead the book.
Just as always, promise to review in deep if… if I can ;)
- Overselling the Web: Development and the Internet
- Overselling the Web Chapter One: Will the Internet Change the World?
- Overselling the Web Chapter Two: The Link Between Technology and Growth
- Overselling the Web Chapter Three: ICT in the Industrialized World
- Overselling the Web Chapter Four: ICT in the Developing World
- Overselling the Web Chapter Five: Experiments with E-Government
- Overselling the Web Chapter Six: Sustainable Policies for E-Development
- Overselling the Web Chapter Seven: Confronting the Costs
If you need to cite this article in a formal way (i.e. for bibliographical purposes) I dare suggest:
Peña-López, I. (2006) “Book: Overselling the Web: Development and the Internet” In ICTlogy,
#37, October 2006. Barcelona: ICTlogy.
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