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Africa's Information Revolution was recently announced as the2016 prizewinner of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences - congratulations to the authorsJames T. Murphy and Padraig Carmody!

Africa's Information Revolution presents an in-depth examination of the development and economic geographies accompanying the rapid diffusion of new ICTs in Sub-Saharan Africa.

  • Represents the first book-length comparative case study ICT diffusion in Africa of its kind
  • Confronts current information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) discourse by providing a counter to largely optimistic mainstream perspectives on Africa's prospects for m- and e-development
  • Features comparative research based on more than 200 interviews with firms from a manufacturing and service industry in Tanzania and South Africa
  • Raises key insights regarding the structural challenges facing Africa even in the context of the continent

    Table of Contents
    Series Editors’ Preface viii

    Acknowledgements ix

    Abbreviations xi

    Introduction xiii

    1 ICT4D: The Making of a Neoliberalized Meta-discourse (with Bjoern Surborg) 1

    2 ICTs and Economic Development in Africa: Theorizing Channels, Assessing Impacts 25

    3 ICTs, Industrial Change, and Globalization in Africa: A Conceptual Framework 47

    4 ICTs in Action: SMMEs and Industrial Change in South Africa and Tanzania 73

    5 ICT Integration, Sociotechnical Regimes, and Global Production Networks 113

    6 Downgrading and Differentiation in African SMMEs 147

    7 Emerging Regime and GPN Configurations: Neo-intermediation and ICT-enabled Extraversion (with Bjoern Surborg) 176

    8 Conclusion 200

    References 215

    Index 243

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 27/03/2015
      ISBN13: 9781118751329, 978-1118751329
      ISBN10: 1118751329
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Africa's Information Revolution was recently announced as the2016 prizewinner of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences - congratulations to the authorsJames T. Murphy and Padraig Carmody!

      Africa's Information Revolution presents an in-depth examination of the development and economic geographies accompanying the rapid diffusion of new ICTs in Sub-Saharan Africa.

      • Represents the first book-length comparative case study ICT diffusion in Africa of its kind
      • Confronts current information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) discourse by providing a counter to largely optimistic mainstream perspectives on Africa's prospects for m- and e-development
      • Features comparative research based on more than 200 interviews with firms from a manufacturing and service industry in Tanzania and South Africa
      • Raises key insights regarding the structural challenges facing Africa even in the context of the continent

        Table of Contents
        Series Editors’ Preface viii

        Acknowledgements ix

        Abbreviations xi

        Introduction xiii

        1 ICT4D: The Making of a Neoliberalized Meta-discourse (with Bjoern Surborg) 1

        2 ICTs and Economic Development in Africa: Theorizing Channels, Assessing Impacts 25

        3 ICTs, Industrial Change, and Globalization in Africa: A Conceptual Framework 47

        4 ICTs in Action: SMMEs and Industrial Change in South Africa and Tanzania 73

        5 ICT Integration, Sociotechnical Regimes, and Global Production Networks 113

        6 Downgrading and Differentiation in African SMMEs 147

        7 Emerging Regime and GPN Configurations: Neo-intermediation and ICT-enabled Extraversion (with Bjoern Surborg) 176

        8 Conclusion 200

        References 215

        Index 243

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