Amazon.com description: Product Description: Knowledge Societies contains a wealth of information and commentary on the social and economic benefits and risks of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for developing countries. It offers unique policy-oriented perspectives on three major sets of issues - constructing and accessing the ICT infrastructure, building capabilities and skills for producing or using ICTs and services, and preparing the framework of strategies, policies, and regulations that will help to ensure that developing countries can move towards innovative "knowledge societies" that support their development goals. It brings together the views of government policy-makers, industrialists, researchers, and other stakeholders in developing and industrialized countries and draws substantially on the results of research in the field of science and technology policy studies. The publication is an excellent resource for government officials, private sector firms, academic researchers, and ICT producers and users.