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03584aam a2200349Ii 4500 001 FB94E174E96D11E8978F920F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20181116010210 008 180315t20182018tz a b 000 0 eng d 010 $a 2017319638 020 $a 9789987083299 020 $a 9987083293 035 $a (OCoLC)1028589877 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d CBY $d YDX $d DLC $d ZYU $d OCLCF $d L2U $d IaU $d SILO 043 $a d------ 050 4 $a T49.5 $b .S54 2018 082 04 $a 338.9/26 $2 23 100 1 $a Sheikheldin, Gussai, $d 1982- $e author. 245 10 $a Liberation and technology : $b development possibilities in pursuing technological autonomy / $c Gussai Sheikheldin. 264 1 $a Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania : $b Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, $c [2018] 300 $a xxv, 174 pages : $b illustration ; $c 23 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-174). 505 0 $a Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction : Thesis -- Liberation technology -- Chapter outline -- Guiding notes for the readers. Chapter 1 Technology, institutions and change : Defining technology -- Technology and institutions -- Dichotomy of technologies: traditional vs. modern -- Development priorities -- Technological change models -- Conclusions: understanding technological change. Chapter 2 Towards technological autonomy : Technological dependency and autonomy -- Proposed technological autonomy framework -- Increase in technological capabilities -- Technology localization -- Some elaborations. Chapter 3 Agents of technological change : The state and technological change -- Agents in the market -- General orientations. Chapter 4 Influences on technological affairs: politics, cultures and ecologies : From simplicity to megatechnics: a philosophical view -- Where context matters -- Technology, culture and social systems -- Technology and ecological systems. Chapter 5 Technology and justice : On progress, modernization and westernization -- Global relations of contemporary technology -- Alienation and dispossession -- ICTs and justice -- Technology, the factory, and cooperatives -- Technology and poverty. Chapter 6 Selected stories : How appropriate is appropriate technology? -- Dams and development -- Ujamaa: brilliant vision, dissonant practice. Last remarks -- References. 520 $a The main treatise of this book is that each developing society ought to seek to achieve technological autonomy in its quest for positive transformations and prosperity for its people. Technological autonomy is about attaining a high level of self-determination in planning and managing technological affairs. Attaining endogenous capacity to guide and execute decisions on production and innovation; creating and transferring key technological products and services; steering relevant foreign and local investment as well as trade; setting own priorities of development free from external manipulation; are goals that must be central to such planning efforts. With evidence and argument, and in plain language, this book suggests a novel way of thinking about development, through envisioning and building better techno-social systems. 650 0 $a Technology and state $z Developing countries. 650 0 $a Appropriate technology $z Developing countries. 650 0 $a Science and state $z Developing countries. 650 7 $a Technology and state. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01145265 651 7 $a Developing countries. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01242969 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20190212014819.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FB94E174E96D11E8978F920F97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search