studies

This page considers studies for making sense of the Hundred Dollar Laptop.

It covers -

• development perspectives
• affordances

     development perspectives

Information Technology, Productivity & Economic Growth: International Evidence and Implications for Economic Development (Oxford: Oxford Uni Press 2001) edited by Matti Pohjola, Exporting Communication Technology to Developing Countries (New York: Universities Press of America 1999) by Emmanuel Ngwainmbi and Information Technology in Context: Studies from the Perspective of Developing Countries (Aldershot: Ashgate 2001) edited by Chrisanthi Avgerou & Geoff Walsham examine aspects of IT development hype in the third and first worlds.

William Easterly's The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures & Misadventures in the Tropics (Cambridge: MIT Press 2001), Information Resources & Technology Transfer Management in Developing Countries (London: Routledge 1997) by Richard Ouma-Onyango, When Telephones Reach the Village: The Role of Telecommunications in Rural Development (Norwood: Ablex 1984) by Heather Hudson and The Network Inside Out (Ann Arbor: Uni of Michigan Press 2000) by Annelise Riles offer perspectives on donor-recipient expectations and relations.

     affordances

Perspectives on usability and affordances are provided in Donald Norman's The Invisible Computer (Cambridge: MIT Press 1998), The Social Life of Information (Boston: Harvard Business School Press 2000) by John Seely Brown & Paul Duguid and the 2005 Research: What It Says About 1 to 1 Learning overview (PDF).

For the MIT Media Lab see Stewart Brand's The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT (London: Penguin 1988), for us an unduly rosy view of 'Mr Digital' that is offset by more hard-headed examination in L J Davis' The Billionaire Shell Game: How Cable Baron John Malone and Assorted Corporate Titans Invented A Future Nobody Wanted (New York: Doubleday 1998) of Negroponte's role in debate about interactive tv.  



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