This article examines the role that information and communication technologies (ICTs) play in regional development and their relationship with factors such as regional learning, innovation, culture, and internal and external regional information networks. Historical methods are used to build up a picture of significant changes that have taken place within two contrasting regions of New Zealand between 1985 and 2005. The interdependent relationships between the development of hard ICT-based networks and regional social networks are explored.

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用历史方法探索信息技术对新西兰区域发展的贡献

本文研究了信息和通信技术 (ICT) 在区域发展中的作用及其与区域学习、创新、文化以及内部和外部区域信息网络等因素的关系。历史方法被用来描绘 1985 年至 2005 年间新西兰两个对比鲜明的地区发生的重大变化。探索了基于 ICT 的硬网络发展与区域社交网络之间的相互依存关系。