@article{1385985,
      recid = {1385985},
      author = {Kleine, Dorothea,},
      title = {Technologies of choice? : ICTs, development, and the  capabilities approach /},
      publisher = {MIT Press,},
      address = {Cambridge, Mass. :},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {Information and communication technologies  (ICTs)--especially the Internet and the mobile phone--have  changed the lives of people all over the world. These  changes affect not just the affluent populations of  income-rich countries but also disadvantaged people in both  global North and South, who may use free Internet access in  telecenters and public libraries, chat in cybercafes with  distant family members, and receive information by text  message or email on their mobile phones. Drawing on Amartya  Sen's capabilities approach to development--which shifts  the focus from economic growth to a more holistic,  freedom-based idea of human development--Dorothea Kleine in  Technologies of Choice? examines the relationship between  ICTs, choice, and development. Kleine proposes a conceptual  framework, the Choice Framework, that can be used to  analyze the role of technologies in development processes.  She applies the Choice Framework to a case study of  microentrepreneurs in a rural community in Chile. Kleine  combines ethnographic research at the local level with  interviews with national policy makers, to contrast the  high ambitions of Chile's pioneering ICT policies with the  country's complex social and economic realities. She  examines three key policies of Chile's groundbreaking  Agenda Digital: public access, digital literacy, and an  online procurement system. The policy lesson we can learn  from Chile's experience, Kleine concludes, is the necessity  of measuring ICT policies against a people-centered  understanding of development that has individual and  collective choice at its heart.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1385985},
}