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
Africas Information Revolutionwas recently announced as the 2016 prizewinner of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences - congratulations to the authors James T. Murphy and Padraig Carmody!
Africas Information Revolution presents an in-depth examination of the development and economic geographies accompanying the rapid diffusion of new ICTs in Sub-Saharan Africa.
James T. Murphy is Associate Professor at Clark Universitys Graduate School of Geography. He is co-author ofKey Concepts in Economic Geography (2011).
Pádraig Carmody is Associate Professor in Geography at Trinity College Dublin, where he co-directs the TCD-UCD Masters in Development Practice and Research Fellow in the Department of Geography, Environmental Management and Energy Studies at the University of Johannesburg. His books includeThe New Scramble for Africa (2011) andThe Rise of the BRICS in Africa (2013).
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Africa’s Information Revolution von James T. Murphy - mit der ISBN: 9781118751305
Anthropogeographie; Economic Development; Economics; Entwicklungsgeographie; Geographie; Geography; Geography of Development; Human Geography; Südafrika /Wirtschaft, Volkswirtschaft; Tansania /Wirtschaft, Volkswirtschaft; Volkswirtschaftslehre; Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung, Online-Buchhandlung
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