Africa's information revolution :
technical regimes and production networks in South Africa and Tanzania /
James T. Murphy, Padraig Carmody.
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Summary: | "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"-- |
Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA, USA :
John Wiley & Sons Inc.,
2015.
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Series: | RGS-IBG book series.
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Physical description: xxix, 249 pages : photographs ; 24 cm more |
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Africa's information revolution |
ISBN: | 9781118751329 (hardback) 9781118751336 (paper) |
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505 | 8 | |a Machine generated contents note: 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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