Africa's information revolution : technical regimes and production networks in South Africa and Tanzania

✍ Scribed by Carmody, Pádraig Risteard; Murphy, James T

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 282
Series: RGS-IBG book series
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Content: 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

✦ Subjects

Information technology -- Economic aspects -- South Africa. Information technology -- Economic aspects -- Tanzania. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General Information technology -- Economic aspects. South Africa. Tanzania.

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