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Africa's Information Revolution [Elektronische Ressource] : Technical Regimes and Production Networks in South Africa and Tanzania

Murphy, James T. ; Carmody, Pádraig,i1968-

Hoboken : Wiley, 2015

282 p.

RGS-IBG Book Series

Description based upon print version of record

978-1-118-75133-6

RS 10732

 

f Online-Publikation  Afrika  Technologie  Informationstechnik  Technologiepolitik  Informationsgesellschaft  Telekommunikationsindustrie  Internet 

 

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Online-Ressource

978-1-118-75131-2

 

Africa's Information Revolution presents anin-depth examination of the development and economic geographiesaccompanying the rapid diffusion of new ICTs in Sub-SaharanAfrica. Represents the first book-length comparative case study ICTdiffusion in Africa of its kindConfronts current information and communication technologiesfor development (ICT4D) discourse by providing a counter to largelyoptimistic mainstream perspectives on Africa's prospects form- and e-developmentFeatures comparative research based on more than 200 interviewswith firms from a manufacturing and service industry in Tanzaniaa...