Big Data and Cloud Computing for Development

Lessons from Key Industries and Economies in the Global South
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-68905-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 357 g

This book provides a framework for evaluating big data and cloud computing based on how they evolve to fit users’ needs in developing countries in key areas, such as agriculture and education. The authors discuss how this framework can be utilized by businesses, governments, and consumers to accelerate economic growth and overcome information and communication barriers.

By examining the ways in which cloud computing can drive social, economic, and environmental transformation, readers gain a nuanced understanding of the opportunities and challenges these technologies offer. The authors also provide an authoritative and up-to-date account of big data’s diffusion into a wide range of developing economies, such as Brazil and China, illustrating key concepts through in-depth case studies. Special attention is paid to economic development in the context of the new Sustainable Development Goals formulated by the United Nations, introducing readers to the most modern standard of economic evaluation.

Students of information management, entrepreneurship, and development, as well as policy makers, researchers, and practitioners, will find Big Data and Cloud Computing for Development an interesting read and a useful reference source.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kshetri, Nir

Fredriksson, Torbjörn

Rojas Torres, Diana Carolina

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Wissensmanagement
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management E-Commerce, E-Business, E-Marketing
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Big Data and Cloud Computing in the Global South: Key Concepts, Issues, Opportunities and Challenges

1. Diffusion of Big Data and Cloud Computing in the Global South: Facilitators, Inhibitors and Consequences

2. The Roles and Significance of Mobile Phones in the Value Proposition of Big Data and the Cloud

3. Privacy and Security Issues Associated with BD and the Cloud

Part II: Big Data and Cloud Computing in Key Development Areas in the Global South

4. Primary industries

5. Education and R&D

6. E-commerce

Part III: Case Studies of Diffusion and Impact of BD and Cloud Computing in Major Economies in the Global South

7. Sub-Saharan Africa

8. India

9. China

10. Brazil

Part IV: Lessons Learned, Implications and the Way Forward

11. Discussion, Implications and Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

NirKshetri is a Professor at the University of North Carolina–Greensboro, USA, and a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration, Kobe University, Japan. He is the author of Global Entrepreneurship, published by Routledge in 2014.

Torbjörn Fredriksson is the Head of ICT-related work for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva, Switzerland.

Diana Carolina Rojas Torres is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Universidad de la Sabana, Colombia.