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| Dinesh Balliah |
| In English. 125 pages. |
| © 2004. BibSpider, Berlin. |
| ISBN 3-936960-06-2 |
| Release date: 2004 |
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Against the e-Odds
A History of the Internet in South Africa 1989 - 1999
Behind this title a dramatic story is hidden: A new medium causes economical and political turmoils and threatens to become increasingly a target of mercy of the different interests of power.
The introduction of the internet in South Africa was pursued with great enthusiasm of single individuals in the academia. Cut off from the networking of the international academic environment, from international conferences and symposia, the internet offered a possibility to open the door to the international world, and to participate at the resources of knowledge world wide.
Target group of the book: Information professionals, librarians, departments of library and information studies, as well politicians and those who are engaged in the field of development and as well as international cultural work.
Dinesh Balliah is a lecturer at the Discipline of Media Studies at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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