ISBN:
9780429714351
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (271 pages)
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DDC:
303.48/34/096
Keywords:
Microcomputers-Social aspects
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Drawing on recent research in the Sudan, Ivory Coast, Kenya and Tanzania, the contributing authors analyze broad patterns of social and political change brought about by the rapidly increasingly use of microcomputer technology in Africa.
Abstract:
Cover Page -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents Page -- List of Tables and Figures Page -- About the Editors and Contributors Page -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Computerization, Aid-Dependency, and Administrative Capacity: A Sudanese Case Study -- 3 Microcomputer Adoption in Tanzania and the Rise of a Professional Elite -- Appendix: Survey of Computers in Tanzania -- 4 Fragile and Progressive Computer Contracts in Kenya and Ivory Coast: New Social Forms in the Workplace -- 5 Foreign Assistance Agencies as Advocates and Innovators -- 6 Issues in Computer-Oriented Innovations in Zimbabwean Education -- 7 The State, Computers, and African Development: The Information Non-Revolution -- Bibliography -- Index.
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