Egypt: building an information society for international development

Deborah L. Wheeler

Review of African Political Economy, 2003, vol. 30, issue 98, 627-642

Abstract: This article examines Egypt's attempt to build an information society for international development as defined by four key variables: an IT infrastructure, a knowledge economy, a public culture of discursive openness, and formal legal institutions which support the digital age. The main finding is that given serious infrastructural challenges, as well as a tendency towards political and economic centralisation, the efforts of a series of government-led projects are unlikely to affect all but the top of the Egyptian social pyramid for the immediate future.

Date: 2003
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