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In the past fifteen years, computerization has revolutionized the production of goods and services in the North. Newly industrialized and developing countries such as Pacific Rim nations, Brazil and India have moved swiftly and with some success to computerization. Yet computers represent an opportunity and a threat to those countries loosely designated as the ‘Third World’, particularly to the cluster of lesser developed countries (LDCs) which have borrowed heavily.1
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Chepaitis, E. (1990). Cultural Constraints in the Transference of Computer Technologies to Third World Countries. In: Mtewa, M. (eds) International Science and Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11672-0_4
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