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
