The Social and Economic Factors within ICT Development in China: A Case Study of Linux Development in China

Author

Zhou, Yinhua ; Shen, Xiaobai ; Fan, Lu

Author_Institution

Manage. Sch., Edinburgh Univ., Edinburgh

fYear

2007

fDate

21-25 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

6035

Lastpage

6038

Abstract

The utilitarian view in China´s technology development and along with following technology determinism, as some scholars pointed out which were dangerous obstacles for China´s development in scientific and technological fields in last two centuries. The objective of this article is to emphasize the importance of social and economic factors within the modern technology, in particular ICT (information and communication technology) development from social shaping of technology perspective by illustrating Linux development in China as case study.

Keywords

Linux; socio-economic effects; technology management; China; ICT development; Linux development; communication technology; economic factor; information technology; social factor; social shaping; technology development; Appropriate technology; Computer architecture; Computer industry; Economics; Linux; Open source software; Operating systems; Research and development; Technological innovation; Technology transfer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2007. WiCom 2007. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1311-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WICOM.2007.1480

Filename

4341255