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Africa’s Information Revolution was recently announced as the 2016 prizewinner of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences - congratulations to the authors James 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’s recent economic growth spurt
  • Combines perspectives from economic and development geography and science and technology studies to demonstrate the power of integrated conceptual-theoretical frameworks
  • Include maps, photos, diagrams and tables to highlight the concepts, field research settings, and key findings

Africa's Information Revolution: Technical Regimes and Production Networks in South Africa and Tanzania

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

    Number of Pages: 280

    Description

    Africa’s Information Revolution was recently announced as the 2016 prizewinner of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences - congratulations to the authors James 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’s recent economic growth spurt
    • Combines perspectives from economic and development geography and science and technology studies to demonstrate the power of integrated conceptual-theoretical frameworks
    • Include maps, photos, diagrams and tables to highlight the concepts, field research settings, and key findings

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