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Leapfrogging is a theory of development in which Developing Countries skip inferior, less efficient, more expensive or more polluting technologies and industries and move directly to more advanced ones. A frequent example is countries which move directly from having no Telephone s to having Cellular Phone s, skipping the stage of Landline telephones altogether. Another example is "ecological" leapfrogging, where countries do not repeat the mistakes of highly industrialized countries in creating an energy infrastructure based on fossil fuels, but "jump" directly into the Solar Age .http://www.wupperinst.org/globalisation/html/leap.html Wuppertal Institute on Leapfrogging An aim of leapfrogging in information technologies is to promote greater access of computer and other technologies, to those people who would normally have no way of accessing it on their own. There are a few ways that leapfrogging can occur, some of which are accidentally (such as when the only systems around for adoption are better than legacy systems elsewhere), situationally (such as the adoption of Decentralized communication for a sprawling, rural countryside), or intentionally (such as policies promoting the installation of WiFi and free computers in poor urban areas). SEE ALSO Developing Countries Developed Countries Legacy Systems EXTERNAL LINKS |
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