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Google 56, 133, 139 Microsoft 32, 52–5, 59, 61, 86, 113, 114,
Green, Andy 5, 18, 50, 63 130, 133, 134, 139
Millennium Development Goals 110,
Haiti 91, 134–5, 142 112, 135
Hole-in-the-wall initiative 116–19, 123, mobile technologies 1, 56, 109, 111,
127, 150 117, 122
HP 54, 59, 113 multinational/transnational corporations
human capital theory 4, 20, 46, 60 10, 11, 24, 32, 43–4, 51–61, 113–15,
123, 129, 143, 149, 151, 153, 160
IBM 112, 131
ICT4D 109–11, 113–20, 121–5, 128, 153–4 nation state 14–18, 28–9, 51, 61, 63–83,
IEA see International Association for the 123, 150–1, 158–9
Evaluation of Educational Achievement national policy programmes for
India 93, 96, 105, 108, 116, 117, 119, educational technology 63–83, 158–9
121, 127, 131, 144 Negroponte, Nicholas 132, 134, 135, 137,
information society 2–3, 5, 12, 15, 19, 34, 139, 140, 143, 144, 145
70, 77, 105, 109, 153, 163 neo-liberalism 34, 46, 60, 61, 81–2, 122,
infrastructure 91–2, 141, 150, 159 148, 150
Intel 54, 59, 112, 114, 133–4, 139 NEPAD see New Partnership for Africa’s
intergovernmental organisations 11, 21, Development
32, 44–6, 58, 139 Nepal 79, 80, 135
International Association for the network society 3, 5
Evaluation of Educational Achievement New Partnership for Africa’s
87–8, 90 Development 111, 112, 113, 119
international development 103, 105–26, non-government organisations 24, 43,
135–6, 145, 154 111, 115, 152
International Monetary Fund 24, 34, 44,
118, 128 Obama, Barack 67, 68, 74
Iraq 135, 143 OECD 32, 44–5, 46, 49–51, 58, 61,
Islam 33, 93, 95, 157 86, 88–9
IT industry 56, 75, 114–15, 123, 132 ‘One Laptop Per Child’ 127–45, 150, 152
open source 7, 47, 48, 118, 130, 131, 134,
Japan 68–9, 77, 78, 81–2, 83, 89, 136, 139, 142, 157, 160, 161
99–102, 150
Jordan 49, 64–5, 89, 114 Papert, Seymour 132, 137, 141–2
para-poor/per-poor/pro-poor approaches
knowledge economy 4–5, 14–15, 19–20, 124, 125
46, 60, 72, 75–7, 115, 122–4, 153, philanthropy/philantrocapitalism 24, 52,
159, 164 55–6, 113–15, 152
PISA 13, 49, 58, 88–9, 90
labour see skills policy/policymaking 11, 18, 24, 45,
language 11, 20, 35, 87, 93, 99, 117, 142 48–50, 60, 63–83, 158–9
leapfrogging 109, 120 political economy 30–2, 63, 64, 72–3
lifelong learning 5, 14, 48–9 post-colonialist approach 32–5, 40, 92, 98,
local context 3, 20, 27, 29–30, 43–4, 83, 153–4
85–103, 142, 145, 149–50, 155–8 poverty 32, 77, 106–9, 120–1, 137
power 3–4, 9, 16–17, 21, 29, 30–2, 40,
Mansell, Robin 31, 32, 65 50, 61, 65, 121, 122, 145, 147, 150,
Maori 95 153–6
Masterplan for ICT in Education 70–1, private sector/commercial sector/
77, 98 for-profit 24, 51, 55–7, 67, 68, 111,
McDonald’s 55, 151 113, 151
mega schooling 6, 11 public 159, 161–2, 163