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Fourth Revolution and the Bottom Four Billion: Making Technologies Work for the Poor

ISBN: 9780472075898 ;ISBN: 0472075896 ;ISBN: 0472055895 ;ISBN: 9780472055890 ;DOI: 10.3998/mpub.12205632

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Title:
Fourth Revolution and the Bottom Four Billion: Making Technologies Work for the Poor
Author: Kshetri, Nir
Subjects: Artificial Intelligence ; Augmented Reality ; Blockchain ; Bottom Four Billion ; Central / national / federal government ; Central / national / federal government policies ; Cryptocurrency ; Data labeling ; Development studies ; Digital colonialism ; Financial Technology ; Fourth Industrial Revolution ; General Purpose Technology ; Genome Editing ; Impact of science and technology on society ; Industry 4.0 ; Information and Communications Technology ; Interdisciplinary studies ; Internet of Things ; Low-income economies ; Mathematics and Science ; Microfinance Institution ; Natural Language Processing ; Peer-to-peer lender ; Politics and government ; Poverty ; Poverty Trap ; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects ; Remote Sensing ; Science: general issues ; Smallholder farmers ; Society and culture: general ; Society and Social Sciences ; Sub-Saharan Africa ; thema EDItEUR
Description: Products and services based on advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and blockchain are normally considered to be for rich consumers in advanced countries. Fourth Revolution and the Bottom Four Billion demonstrates how marginalized and vulnerable groups with limited resources can also benefit from these technologies. Nir Kshetri suggests that the falling costs and the increased ease of developing and deploying applications based on these technologies are making them more accessible. He illustrates how key emerging technologies are transforming major industries and application areas such as healthcare and pandemic preparedness, agriculture, finance, banking, and insurance. The book also looks at how these transformations are affecting the lives of low-income people in low- and middle-income countries and highlights the areas needing regulatory attention to adequately protect marginalized and vulnerable groups from the abuse and misuse of these technologies. Kshetri discusses how various barriers such as the lack of data, low resource languages, underdeveloped technology infrastructures, lack of computing power and shortage of skill and talent have hindered the adoption of these technologies among marginalized and vulnerable groups. Fourth Revolution and the Bottom Four Billion suggests that it is the responsibility of diverse stakeholders—governments, NGOs, international development organizations, academic institutions, the private sector, and others—to ensure that marginal groups also benefit from these transformative innovations.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Creation Date: 2023
Format: 374
Language: English
Identifier: ISBN: 9780472075898
ISBN: 0472075896
ISBN: 0472055895
ISBN: 9780472055890
DOI: 10.3998/mpub.12205632
Source: OAPEN

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Fourth Revolution and the Bottom Four Billion: Making Technologies Work for the Poor

ISBN: 9780472075898 ;ISBN: 0472075896 ;ISBN: 0472055895 ;ISBN: 9780472055890 ;DOI: 10.3998/mpub.12205632

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