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“jacques steyn”

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  • ICTs for Global Development and Sustainability: Practice and Applications

    Edited by Jacques Steyn, Jean-Paul Van Belle, Eduardo Villanueva Mansilla ...
    Many hundreds of millions of dollars have been wasted by well meaning philanthropists, aid agencies and governments in projects to deploy ICT solutions in developing contexts. The very long list of public Internet access facilities (telecenters, internet cafés, multi-purpose community centers) that were either closed down, or that never got off the ground in the first place, is very troublesome. ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • ICTs and Sustainable Solutions for the Digital Divide: Theory and Perspectives

    Edited by Jacques Steyn, Graeme Johanson ...
    The coming of age of the personal computer and World Wide Web has made it possible to reach a much wider portion of populations. Technological determinists as well as social activists saw the potential of deploying networked computers to the general citizenry, and internet cafés and telecentres were established. Over the past twenty years only a handful of very poor countries did not get onto this ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Structuring Music through Markup Language: Designs and Architectures

    Edited by Jacques Steyn ...
    Although there have been two main perspectives on the nature of music through systematic and cultural musicology, music informatics has emerged as an interdisciplinary research area which provides a different idea on the nature of music through computer technologies. Structuring Music through Markup Language: Designs and Architectures offers a different approach to music by focusing on the ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

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  • Generative Deep Learning

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  • Sustainable Development Goals Connectivity Dilemma

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    Edited by Abbas Rajabifard ...
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  • Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D)

    by Richard Heeks ...
    Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
    Mobile phones are close to ubiquitous in developing countries; Internet and broadband access are becoming commonplace. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) thus represent the fastest, broadest and deepest technical change experienced in international development. They now affect every development sector – supporting the work of hundreds of millions of farmers and micro-entrepreneurs; ... Read more

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  • The Computer Music Tutorial, second edition

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    Expanded, updated, and fully revised—the definitive introduction to electronic music is ready for new generations of students.Essential and state-of-the-art, The Computer Music Tutorial, second edition is a singular text that introduces computer and electronic music, explains its motivations, and puts topics into context. Curtis Roads’s step-by-step presentation orients musicians, engineers, ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies

    Edited by William H. Dutton ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Internet Studies has been one of the most dynamic and rapidly expanding interdisciplinary fields to emerge over the last decade. The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies has been designed to provide a valuable resource for academics and students in this area, bringing together leading scholarly perspectives on how the Internet has been studied and how the research agenda should be pursued in the ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music

    Edited by Alex McLean, Roger T. Dean ...
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    With the ongoing development of algorithmic composition programs and communities of practice expanding, algorithmic music faces a turning point. Joining dozens of emerging and established scholars alongside leading practitioners in the field, chapters in this Handbook both describe the state of algorithmic composition and also set the agenda for critical research on and analysis of algorithmic ... Read more

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  • From Government to E-Governance: Public Administration in the Digital Age

    by Muhammad Muinul Islam, Mohammad Ehsan ...
    In simple terms, e-governance revolves around the idea of performing the policy, service and development functions of the government with the help of the ICTs so as to manage and steer the multi-sectoral stakeholder relations on a non-hierarchical way. Keeping this simple notion in mind, From Government to E-Governance: Public Administration in the Digital Age attempts to introduce innovative ... Read more

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  • Exploring Musical Spaces

    A Synthesis of Mathematical Approaches

    by Julian Hook ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Music Theory
    Exploring Musical Spaces is a comprehensive synthesis of mathematical techniques in music theory, written with the aim of making these techniques accessible to music scholars without extensive prior training in mathematics. The book adopts a visual orientation, introducing from the outset a number of simple geometric models—the first examples of the musical spaces of the book's title—depicting ... Read more

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