Liberation and technology : development possibilities in pursuing technological autonomy /

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Author / Creator:Sheikheldin, Gussai, author.
Imprint:Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Mkuki na Nyota, [2018]
©2018
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Subject:Technology and state -- Developing countries.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Developing & Emerging Countries.
Technology and state.
Developing countries.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12019049
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ISBN:9789987083329
9987083323
9987083293
9789987083299
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:"The most fundamental difference between 'developing' and 'developed' societies is technology, in a broad yet specific sense"; so states the author of this important study, Liberation and Technology: Development possibilities in pursuing technological autonomy. The ways in which technology is developed, institutionalized, animated and celebrated, form the core of 'development' (human, economic, environmental, etc.) and ultimately civilization itself. But 'techno-spheres' are not only technical. They are also social, political, and ideological. For societies and countries that have long been kept from realizing their own prosperity and dignity, development is also liberation. The main treatise of this book is that each developing society ought to seek to achieve technological autonomy in its quest for positive transformations and prosperity for its people. Technological autonomy is about attaining a high level of self-determination in planning and managing technological affairs. Attaining endogenous capacity to guide and execute decisions on production and innovation; creating and transferring key technological products and services; steering relevant foreign and local investment as well as trade; setting own priorities of development free from external manipulation; are goals that must be central to such planning efforts. With evidence and argument, and in plain language, this book suggests a novel way of thinking about development, through envisioning and building better techno-social systems. For these reasons this book is a welcome addition to the body of ideas informing practitioners and theorists in the field of development--political leaders, economists, sociologists, engineers, technologists, scientists, scholars, planners and activists who are involved in relevant development processes and liberation struggles
Other form:Print version: 9987083293 9789987083299
Table of Contents:
  • Technology, institutions and change
  • Towards technological autonomy
  • Agents of technological change
  • Influences on technological affairs : politics, cultures and ecologies
  • Technology and justice
  • Selected stories.