"In the first main section of the paper the exogenous and endogenous models are introduced, indicating why the former is principally concerned with technology gaps, knowledge gaps and information dissemination, whereas the latter is more concerned with human beings, decision-making processes, and encouraging the poor to make their own society through participatory and inclusive processes of development. This section also includes a note on the method employed in the analysis which follows. In section three, selected texts from a sample of reports of UN agencies and the World Bank are analysed to illustrate visions of information or knowledge societies that are market- and predominately technology-led. In the fourth section, some of the insights from efforts to bring issues more consistent with the endogenous model to the fore are considered. This sets the stage for a discussion in section five of alternative perspectives that acknowledge multiple knowledges and emergent outcomes as being central to the way that ICTs contribute to poverty reduction. The concluding section considers changes in intervention strategies that could encourage knowledge societies that are more responsive to the goals of poverty reduction." [Information des Anbieters]