Transformation of regional societies through ICTs: State(s) of the Art(s)

Cornford, J., Richardson, R., Sokol, M., Marques, Pedro and Gillespie, A. 2006. Transformation of regional societies through ICTs: State(s) of the Art(s). [Discussion Paper]. TRANSFORM – Benchmarking and Fostering Transformative Use of ICT in EU Regions. Available at: http://www.transform-eu.org/publications/documents...

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Abstract

Substantial territorial disparities continue to exist between Europe’s regions. Still today, the nature of the variation across regions is not well understood, neither is the role of information and communication technology (ICT), which could have been expected to eliminate traditional disparities between central and peripheral regions because of its contribution to ‘time-space compression’. Existing evidence suggests that, while the potentials of ICT are available – at least to some degree – to every region, the ways and the effectiveness with which regions exploit these potentials vary hugely across the EU territory. In this context, the notion of transformation as a particular kind of change has recently come to the fore in the public debate. We consider transformational change as a change in the form of (regional) society but not its type, and neither its underlying goals and aims. We can thus distinguish transformational change both from the incremental change in degree, on the one hand, and from totalising or revolutionary change, on the other.

Item Type:	Monograph (Discussion Paper)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Publisher:	TRANSFORM – Benchmarking and Fostering Transformative Use of ICT in EU Regions
Related URLs:	http://www.transform-eu.org/publications...
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Last Modified:	07 Nov 2019 09:09
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/72067

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