00983nam a2200085Ia 4500100002800000245009800028260000900126520074200135583002000877  aMorales-Gómez, Daniel  aUtilising information and communication technologies for development : the social dimensions.  c1998  aArgues that it is unlikely that quantum leap reversals of marginalization and poverty will result from technology transfer to the developing world.  Cautions that developing country governments and international agencies should undertake a more rigorous analysis of the social and cultural dimensions of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in order to be able to design appropriate policies and programmes which will enable countries to harness ICTs for development in their own context.  Concludes that the best long-term development investment that can be made using ICTs is to apply them to the training and education of the new generation, rather than to transform those technologies into short-term ends in themselves.  c11/10/00kJOY_D