Includes bibliographical references and index.

RUBIN PATTERSON, A Special Issue on Science & Technology in Southern Africa and East and South Asia -- MEERA NANDA,Who Needs Post-Development? Discourses of Difference, Green Revolution and Agrarian Populism in India -- WILLIAM WRESCH, Institutional Reactions to the Information Highway: Namibia's First Year on the Internet -- ERNEST J. WILSON III, Development of National Information and Communications Services: A Comparison of Malaysia and South Africa -- TAKAHASHI MOTOKI and SAKANO TAICHI, Can "the Miracle" be Replicated?: Official Development Assistance and Technological Transfer from Japan to East Asia and Southern Africa -- JONG-HO KIM, A Study on the Implementation Body of Local Informationization in Korea: A Comparative Perspective -- RUBIN PATTERSON and JAMES BOZEMAN, Comparativist Study of State Promotion of Science and Technology. Cases: Botswana and Singapore -- Contributors -- Index.

The theme of Science, Technology and Development in Southern Africa, and East and Central Asia is threefold. The first component concerns the proposition that no underdeveloped nation will be empowered to meet the needs and aspirations of its citizens without the adoption of advancing Science & Technology. The adoption of S & T processes by examining the questions of political leadership initiation in Botswana and Singapore is explored in chapters one and two. Component number two engages what is widely regarded as potentially the most enabling cluster of advanced technologies for development in the South: information technologies (IT). Articles three through five take up IT and development in Malaysia, South Africa, South Korea and Namibia. The final component discusses the crucial subject of technology transfer by comparing Japan's technology transfer to Southeast Asia and Southern Africa. Contributors are James Bozeman, Jong-Ho Kim, Takahashi Motoki, Meera Nanda, Rubin Patterson, Sakano Taichi, Ernest J. Wilson III, and William Wresch.

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