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INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Also by Mekki Mtewa AFRICAN ADMINISTRATION AND DEVELOPMENT POLITICS (editor) THE CONSULTA NT CONNEXION: Evaluation of the Federal Consulting Service INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND ALTERNATIVE FUTURES (editor) MALA WI POLITICAL THEORY AND PUBLIC POLICY PERSPECTIVES IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (editor) PUBLIC POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT POLITICS: The Politics of Technical Expertise in Africa SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT: Options and Policies (editor) International Science and Technology Philosophy, Theory and Policy Edited by Mekki Mtewa Founder and Chief Executive Officer Association for the Advancement of Policy, Research and Development in the Third World Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 978-1-349-11674-4 ISBN 978-1-349-11672-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-11672-0 © Mekki Mtewa 1990 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1990 All rights reserved. For information, write: Scholarly and Reference Division, St. Martin's Press, Inc., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 First published in the United States of America in 1990 ISBN 978-0-312-03688-1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data International science and technology: philosophy, theory, and policy edited by Mekki Mtewa. p.cm. ISBN 978-0-312-03688-1 1. Science and state-Developing countries. 2. Technology and state Developing countries. I. Mtewa, Mekki. Q127.2.I576 1990 338.9'26'091724-dc20 89-27469 CIP To my parents for their dreams of a brighter, humane tomorrow and to Lessie Viola, for her commitment to the present Contents About the Authors ix Acknowledgements xi Foreword xii Section I 1 Science and Technology for Development: Theory and Practice 3 Mekki Mtewa Section II Educational Policy 2 Educational Ideologies and Technical Development in the Third World 29 Mehrangiz Najafizadeh and Lewis A. Mennerick 3 A Research Model Applied to a Computer Project in Swaziland 43 Martha Tyler John and Floyd Idwal John 4 Cultural Constraints in the Transference of Computer Technologies to Third World Countries 61 Elia Chepaitis Section III Institutional Policy 5 Experts, Advisers and Consultants in Science, Technology and Development Policy 75 Mekki Mtewa 6 Strategies for Communicating on Innovative Management with Receptive Individuals in Development Organizations 118 Larissa A. Grunig and James E. Grunig 7 Southern African Urban Development: Prospects for Involvement of American Institutions 132 Marvel A. Lang Section IV Communication Policy 8 Global Telecommunication Strategies for Developing Countries 143 Peter Habermann vii viii Contents 9 A Model for Telecommunication Development in Africa 151 John James Haute 10 Information Markets, Telecommunications and China's Future 159 William B. Crawford Section V Economic Policy 11 United States Bilateral Foreign Aid and Multilateral Aid: A Comparison 173 David Porter 12 Economic Development in Latin America: The Brazilian Experience 189 Eufronio Carreno Roman About the Authors Eufronio Carreno Ronuin teaches economics at Kean College, New Jersey. Elia Chepaitis is the designer of the Elia system, an alternative to Braille. She teaches computer information management systems at Fairfield University. William B. Crawford teaches management at Slippery Rock Univer sity, Pennsylvania. James Grunig teaches journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park. Larissa Grunig teaches journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park. Peter Habermann teaches communications at Florida International University, Miami. John James Haole teaches journalism in the School of Journalism at Mississippi State University. Floyd Idwal John teaches business and management at Marymount University, Virginia. Martha Tyler John is Dean of the School of Education and Human Services at Marymount University, Virginia. Marvel A. Lang teaches urban affairs at Michigan State University, East Lansing, where he also heads the Urban Affairs Institute. Lewis A. Mennerick teaches sociology at the University of Kansas at Lawrence. Mekki Mtewa is the founder of the Association for the Advancement of Policy, Research and Development in the Third World and is its current Chief Executive Officer. ix X About the Authors Mehrangiz Najafizadeh teaches sociology at Mount StMary's College, Emmitsburgh, Maryland. David Porter teaches political science in the Department of Political Science at Youngstown State University, Ohio.
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