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conditions in which 'development'the process by which people, individually and collectively, enhance their capacities to improve their lives according to their values and interestsoperates have significantly changed in the global information age, a period characterized by the technological revolution in information and communication, the rise of the networking form of social organization, and the global interdependence of economies and societies.
This volume aims to redefine the means and goals of development in this new context: first, by characterizing the specific mode of development, informational development, that the authors consider to be the driver of the creation of material wealth in the twentyfirst century secondly, by reconceptualizing human development as the fulfilment of human wellbeing in the multidimensionality of the human experience, ultimately affirming dignity as the supreme value of development thirdly, by examining the relationship between
informational development and human development.


After first setting out its analytical framework, the book brings together a diverse set of empiricallyrich case studies to illustrate this investigation from across the globeSilicon Valley, Costa Rica, Chile, South Africa, Finland, the European Union, and Chinaand concludes by attempting to reconceptualize development.
It raises important questions and provides observations, including examining the concept of 'dignity as development', to contribute to a policy debate that should provide specific answers linked to the conditions

of each society, and be enacted by democratic institutions in a concerted global effort to save humankind while there is still time.

Manuel Castells is Professor of Communication and the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, as well as Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, Research Professor at the Open University of Catalonia, and Marvin and Joanne Grossman Distinguished Visiting Professor of Technology and Society at MIT.
He is the author of, among other books, the three volume work The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture.
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