From Envisioning to Designing e-Development : The Experience of Sri Lanka
This book focuses on identifying the potential benefits of a holistic, cross-sectoral development driven approach to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and how it relates to economic development and competitiveness for Sri Lanka. This v...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC : World Bank
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/01/7339402/envisioning-designing-e-development-experience-sri-lanka http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6628 |
| Summary: | This book focuses on identifying the
potential benefits of a holistic, cross-sectoral development
driven approach to Information and Communication Technology
(ICT) and how it relates to economic development and
competitiveness for Sri Lanka. This volume, the first of two
about moving e-Sri Lanka from vision to implementation,
focuses on the design of the strategy aimed at enabling Sri
Lanka to join the global information services economy. The
volume first provides an overview of why and how the e-Sri
Lanka strategy was designed, the nature of this strategy,
and how World Bank funding was secured. It then looks at the
potential of the software and information services sector
and at the mechanisms to develop the human resources and
local and export markets for a thriving sector. Finally, it
examines why and how to extend affordable information
infrastructure to all, particularly those in the
country's rural and impoverished areas. |
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