[Air-L] Open Source and changing mode of productions in the third world

Denise N. Rall denrall at yahoo.com
Sun Mar 2 19:09:05 PST 2008


--- Imam Ardhianto <imam.ardhianto at gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Iman -

These are old books, about Africa rather than
Indonesia, but Jules-Rossette does an excellent job
from a marxist perspective on ownerships of
technology, particularly from a developing world
perspective (she may have written something recently).

For a marxist understanding of IT and its meaning to
political economies generally, you can look to Steve
Fuller, perhaps this is the best one I can refer you
to.

Fuller, S. 2001. Knowledgement management foundations.
Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann.

Open Source will be the next problem . . . but these
will give you some basics.

Cheers, Denise



Jules-Rossette, B. 1990. Terminal signs: Computers and
social change in Africa. Berlin: Mouton-de Gruyter.

Jules-Rossette, B. 1992. Fragile and progressive
computer contracts in Kenya and Ivory Coast: New
social forms in the workplace. In Lewis, S. G. & J.
Samoff (Eds.), Microcomputers in African Development.
Boulder, CO: Westview Press.



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