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

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Author / Creator:Murphy, James T., author.
Imprint:Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA, USA : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2015.
Description:xxix, 249 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:RGS-IBG book series
RGS-IBG book series.
Subject:Information technology -- Economic aspects -- South Africa.
Information technology -- Economic aspects -- Tanzania.
Telecommunication -- Economic aspects -- South Africa.
Telecommunication -- Tanzania -- Econmic aspects.
Economic development -- South Africa.
Economic development -- Tanzania.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing Countries.
Economic development.
Economic history.
Information technology -- Economic aspects.
Telecommunication -- Economic aspects.
South Africa -- Economic conditions.
Tanzania -- Economic conditions.
South Africa.
Tanzania.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10157703
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Other authors / contributors:Carmody, Pádraig Risteard, author.
ISBN:9781118751329 (hardback)
1118751329 (hardback)
9781118751336 (paper)
1118751337 (paper)
Notes: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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--
Other form:Online version: Murphy, James T., author. Africa's information revolution Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA, USA : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2015 9781118751305

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