1st Edition

Europe and Developing Countries in the Globalized Information Economy Employment and Distance Education

Edited By Maria Ines Bastos, Swasti Mitter Copyright 1999

    This volume explores the challenges and the opportunities created by the rapid growth of 'telematics'. European firms benefit through lower labour costs and access to big new markets in the fields of education and training. At the same time European governments are concerned about jobs disappearing. For the developing world, there is the brightest prospect of new jobs and novel means of education. However, how secure will these new jobs be? Will a more highly educated work force lead to a brain drain?

    Introduction

    Part I: Information Revolution and New Modes of Employment and Work Organisation

    Chapter 1. Relocation of information processing work: Implications for trade between Asia and the European Union Swasti Mitter and Umit Efendioglu, UNU/INTECH, The Netherlands

    Chapter 2. Beyond anecdotes: On qualifying the globalisation of information processing work Ursula Huws, Analytica, London, UK

    A non-European counterpoint

    Trade in Software services: From international trade to teletrade. The case study of Tata Consultancy services in India. N.P. Basrur, Tata Consultancy Services, Bombay, India and Seema Chawla, UNU/INTECH, The Netherlands

    Chapter 3. Externalising information processing work: Breaking the logic of spatial and work organisation Geraldine Reardon, Trade Union Researcher, London, UK

    Chapter 4. Call centres and the prospects for export-oriented work in the developing world: Evidence from western Europe Ranald Richardson, University of Newcastle, UK

    A non-European counterpoint

    The globalised information society and its impact on Europe-Maghreb relations Abdelkader Djeflat, Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France

    Chapter 5. Innovation and competitiveness in complex product systems: The case of mobile phone systems Andrew Davies, University of Sussex, UK

    A non-European counterpoint

    The South Africa mobile phone system Dave Kaplan, University of Cape Town, South Africa

    Part II: Learning with telematics in the globalised information society

    Chapter 6. Europe and developing countries in the emerging on-line education market Maria Ines Bastos

    Chapter 7. Lifelong learning policies in a new technological era Albert Tuijnman, Institute of International Education, Stockholm, Sweden

    A non-European counterpoint

    Productive two-way collaboration between technologically developed and developing countries in new technologies for education Peter E. Kinyanjui, The Commonwelath of Learning, Canada

    Chapter 8. Testing tecnology for tele-education: Pilot projects at KPN in the Netherlands Eline de Kleine, KPN Research, The Netherlands

    A non-European counterpoint

    The Brazilian 'TELECURSO 2000'. An experience with applications of communications technologies to vocational and continuous education Arlette A. Paula Guibert, National Service of Industrial Apprenticeship, Regional Department of Sao Paolo, Brazil

    Chapter 9. Technologies for distance education in developing countries Wolfram Laaser, Fern Universitaet Hagen, Germany

    Chapter 10. KIDLINK - Global network for youth Claus Berg, Ministry of Education, Denmark

    A non-European counterpoint

    Distance education in Latin America at the technology cross- roads Fabio Jose Chacon Duque, Open National University, Venezuela

    Conclusions

    Biography

    Bastos, Maria Ines ; Mitter, Swasti