TELEMATICS AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: A RESEARCH LITERATURE REVIEW

Qvortrup, Lars

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Author(s): Lars Qvortrup

Publication date (Print): December 1994

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Keywords: telecommunications, telematics, development, literature

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This research literature review reflects the historical development of research in telematics and regional development, focusing particularly on the inherent research paradigms. In an early phase (the 1960s and 1970s), research was dominated by correlation analyses based on a communication model paradigm with communication as a cause-and-effect process. However, during the 1980s a large number of micro causational analyses were performed. This then led to a new paradigm, according to which communication is a process of interference among complex social systems. This literature review concludes that although the complexity of the relation between telecommunication and regional development must indeed be recognised, currently, there is a need to assist policy making by trying to classify the “myriad of factors” identified during the “complex systems paradigm” tradition into a less complicated typology, and thus to reduce the numerous policy recommendations into a manageable number of integrated strategies.

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Title: Prometheus

Subtitle: Critical Studies in Innovation

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Publication date (Print): December 1994

Volume: 12

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Pages: 152-172

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[2] Calabrese Andrew. . 1993. . ‘ Arich compilation of details.’ A review of Parker et al. 1992. . Telecommunications Policy . , Vol. 17((1)) January/February;: 88––91. .

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[5] CCITT: Etudes économiques à l'échelle nationale dans le domaine des télécommunications (1973-1976), 1976.

[6] CCITT: Rural Telecommunications., Geneva, 1979.

[7] CCITT: Etudes économiques à l'échelle nationale dans le domaine des télécommunications (1977-1980), 1982.

[8] Commission of the European Communities: The future of rural society, Bulletin of the European Communities, Supplement 4/88, Commission communication to Parliament and the Council, Belgium, 1988.

[9] Cronin Francis J., Edwin Parker B., Elisabeth Colleran K. and Mark Gold A.. 1991. . ‘Telecommunications infrastructure and economic growth; an analysis of causality,’. . Telecommunications Policy . , Vol. 15((6)) December;: 529––535. .

[10] Cronin Francis J., Edwin Parker B., Elisabeth Colleran K. and Mark Gold A.. 1993. . ‘Telecommunications infrastructure and economic development,’. . Telecommunications Policy . , Vol. 17((6)) August;: 415––430. .

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[15] Gille, Laurent, ‘Growth and Telecommunications’, ITU, Information, Telecommunications and Development. ITU, Geneva, 1986.

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[26] IDATE: Growth and Telecommunications: A Summary of Research, Montpellier, 1984.

[27] ITU’, Information, Telecommunications and Development, ITU, Geneva, 1986.

[28] ITU, The Missing Link, Report of the Independent Commission for World-Wide Telecommunications Development, ITU, Geneva, 1984.

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[31] Jonscher, C. and M. Tyler, The Impact of Telecommunications on the Performance of a Sample of Business Enterprises in Kenya, Case Study No. 18, Etude UIT-OCDE. ITU, Geneva, 1983

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[45] Pierce William B. and Nicolas Jéquier. . 1983. . Telecommunications for Development . , Geneva : : ITU. .

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[47] Qvortrup, Lars, ‘The Nordic telecottages: Community teleservice centres for rural regions’, Telecommunications Policy, March, 1989.

[48] Qvortrup, Lars, “The controversy over the concept of information’, Cybernetics & Human Knowing, 1, 4, 1993.

[49] Qvortrup, Lars, ‘Community TeleService Centres: A means to social, cultural and economic development of rural communities and low-income urban settlements’, A document for the World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC), ITU, Buenos Aires, 1994.

[50] Saunders, Robert J., Jeremy J. Warford, and Björn Wellenius, Telecommunications and Economic Development, John Hopkins University Press, 1983.

[51] Schiller, Herbert, Who knows? Information in the Age of the Fortune 500, Ablex, Norwood N.J. 1981.

[52] Shields Peter, Brenda Dervin, Christopher Richter and Richard Soller. . 1993. . ‘Who needs ‘POTS-plus’ services? A comparison of residential user needs along the rural-urban continuum’. . Telecommunications Policy . , Vol. 17((8))

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