Africa's information revolution
Subtitle: technical regimes and production networks in South Africa and Tanzania
By: James T. Murphy, Padraig Carmody
Contributors: Carmody, Pádraig Risteard, author
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, UK; Malden, MA, USA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781118751329; 9781118751336
Subjects: Economic development; Economic conditions; Telecommunication; Information technology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing Countries
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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 .