ICT, Education, and Regional Development in Swiss Peripheral Areas

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Author(s): Chiara Giorgi (Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Switzerland)and Dieter Schürch (Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Switzerland)
Copyright: 2005
Pages: 6
Source title: Encyclopedia of Developing Regional Communities with Information and Communication Technology
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Stewart Marshall (The University of the West Indies, Barbados), Wal Taylor (Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa)and Xinghuo Yu (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-575-7.ch069

Keywords: Global Information Technology / Government & Law / Information Science Reference / Urban & Regional Development

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Since the end of 20th Century, the introduction of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has deeply influenced many aspects of everyday life, leading to the creation of new meanings for the traditional concepts of identity, culture, economy and, above all, communication (Mantovani, 1995; Perriault, 1989; Rullani, 2002). Trends about technological development show how, in the next years, the change will gradually concern all elementary daily actions, due to spreading of the electronic devices in the environment (OCDE, 2002; Saracco, 2003). If ICT will be ever more deeply-rooted in our reality, how fast will they consequently influence our socio-cultural identity? What sort of consequences do we have to imagine at economic level? What variety of scenarios can we draw about our future? And, above all, how will the concept of development change?

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