Technology and Human Development

This book introduces the capability approach - in which wellbeing, agency and justice are the core values - as a powerful normative lens to examine technology and its role in development.

List of contents

Introduction 1. The Appropriate Technology Movement and the Capability Approach 2. The Details of Technological Design 3. Embedding Technology in Socio-Technical Networks 4. A Capability Approach of ICT for Development (ICT4D) 5. Conclusion

About the author

Ilse Oosterlaken is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Summary

This book introduces the capability approach – in which wellbeing, agency and justice are the core values - as a powerful normative lens to examine technology and its role in development.

Product details

• Authors: Ilse Oosterlaken, Oosterlaken Ilse
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.05.2015
• EAN: 9781138780576
• ISBN: 978-1-138-78057-6
• No. of pages: 148
• Series: The Routledge Human Development and Capability Debates
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, Sociology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Society & culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, computer science, environmental science, engineering & technology, Technical design, Society and culture: general, Engineering: general, Legal aspects of IT, Development Studies, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Library & Information Sciences, Library and information sciences / Museology, Digital and information technologies: Legal aspects