Overview
A comprehensive overview of technology start-up arenas in Nairobi
Investigates assumptions about sites of the production of commercialization of digital technologies
Advances the discourse on globalisation and how universalism and plurarity co-exist
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
- digital entrepreneurship in Africa
- ICT4D
- Silicon Savannah
- entrepreneurship in context
- Nairobi tech scene
- digital entrepreneurship
- colonial modernity
- digital development
- 4IR in Africa
- digital inclusion
- white fronting
- predatory inclusion
- critique of multistakeholder governance
- developmental state
- liberalisation of telecommunications in Africa
- digitial globalisation
About this book
This book provides a comprehensive overview of technology start-up arenas in Nairobi and examines their global place. These start-ups are popularly perceived as representing future prosperity that is incorporated in the present. The author examines how developing country arenas lay bare the power asymmetries and taken-for-granted assumptions that determine which technoscientific imaginaries become globalized and universal, and are supported by legitimizing narratives, logics and institutions. A framing of ‘catch-up’ or ‘leapfrogging’ for technoscientific development that is based on capitalist modernity is regarded as incontrovertible—so much so that alternative values and approaches to technology production are rarely contemplated. This book documents how actors in Nairobi’s startup arena relate to these imaginaries and the affects, enactments and places that they produce.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fabricating Silicon Savannah
Book Subtitle: The Making Of A Digital Entrepreneurship Arena Of Development
Authors: Michel Njeri Wahome
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34490-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-34489-3Published: 15 December 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-34492-3Due: 29 December 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-34490-9Published: 14 December 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 228
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology, general, Human Geography, Entrepreneurship