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MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development

global challenges, engineering solutions
 

Catherine Mulligan

The Impact of Telecommunications

Catherine Mulligan

The Impact of Telecommunications

This dissertation performs multidisciplinary research into the impact of ICT on low income earners in China. While there is a large body of anecdotal evidence into the benefits of ICT rollout, limited empirical evidence into its impacts on low-income earners’ lives exists. In order to understand which ICT services to develop, it is vital to understand these impacts. This paper aims to redress this imbalance and widen the scope of discussion of ICT in developing nations beyond which technology is most appropriate and towards how best to shape access for low-income earners to wider society through ICT.
Subject: 
Resource Flows
2005-06

 

Course Overview

Context

The need to engage in better problem definition through careful dialogue with all stakeholder groups and a proper recognition of context.

Perspectives

An ability to work with specialists from other disciplines and professional groups acknowledging that technical innovation and business skills also must be understood, nurtured and combined as precursors to the successful implementation of sustainable solutions.

Change

An understanding of mechanisms for managing change in organisations so future engineers are equipped to play a leadership role.

Tools

An awareness of a range of assessment frameworks, sustainability metrics and methodologies such as Life Cycle Analysis, Systems Dynamics, Multi-Criteria Decision making and Impact Assessment.

 

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