The Philippines: The quest for genuine e-development

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Political Science

Document Type

Book Chapter

Source Title

National Strategies to Harness Information Technology: Seeking Transformation in Singapore, Finland, the Philippines, and South Africa

First Page

153

Last Page

194

Publication Date

1-1-2012

Abstract

After more than a hundred years of independence and its outstanding growth performance during the 1950s and the 1960s, the Philippines today has been regarded as a perennial development laggard—unable to achieve sustained economic growth thus earning the label of an “antidevelopment state.” The country faces numerous development challenges. In this chapter we analyze recent and ongoing efforts to break the antidevelopment cycle by harnessing information and communication technologies (ICT). We review selected ongoing Philippine ICT for development (ICT4D) initiatives and the characteristics of these initiatives. We classify these initiatives as “traditional”—disjointed, unsustainable, and short-term oriented.

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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1007/978-1-4614-2086-6_5

Disciplines

Growth and Development

Keywords

Information technology—Government policy—Philippines; Technology and state—Philippines; Philippines—Economic conditions; Philippines—Politics and government

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