Africa 2.0

Höfundur: Russell Southwood (Útgáfa: 0)
Africa 2.0

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Africa 2. 0 provides an important history of how two technologies – mobile calling and internet – were made available to millions of sub-Saharan Africans, and the impact they have had on their lives. The book deals with the political challenges of liberalisation and privatisation that needed to be in place in order for these technologies to be built. It analyses how the mobile phone fundamentally changed communications in sub-Saharan Africa and the ways Africans have made these technologies part of their lives, opening up a very different future.

The book offers a critical examination of the impact these technologies have had on development practices, and the key role development actors played in accelerating regulatory reform, fibre roll-out and mobile money. Southwood shows how corruption in the industry is a prism through which patronage relationships in government can be understood, and argues that the arrival of a start-up ecosystem in the region has the potential to change this.

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Útgefandi
Manchester University Press
ISBN
9781526154804
Print ISBN
9781526154811
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
0
Höfundar
Russell Southwood
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2022-07-12
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
2
Afritunar takmörkun
2

Kaflar

  • Cover
  • Half-title page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • List of illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Technology diffusion: the spread of mobile calling and internet
  • Prologue (1986–2004)
  • 1: Mobile voice calling booms (1993–2004)
  • 2: Bandwidth as the digital economy's fuel: getting sub-Saharan Africa connected (1991–2015)
  • 3: Cheaper mobile internet and low-cost smartphones come together with apps sub-Saharan Africans want to use (2005–18)
  • Part II: Technology influences: uses, behaviours and abuses
  • 4: Mobile money: from transferring cash by SMS to a digital payments ecosystem (2000–20)
  • 5: Sub-Saharan Africans start to live the digital life (2000–20)
  • 6: Sprinkling on the magic dust: digital's impact on development (1982–2020)
  • 7: The ugly underbelly of the communications revolution: corruption, cronyism, regulation and government (1999–2020)
  • Part III: Taking the long view: start-up innovation and complex behaviour change
  • 8: Sub-Saharan African start-ups: getting beyond the hype to address deep market challenges (1995–2020)
  • 9: Doing complexity: making sense of what has happened over thirty-five years
  • Appendix A: Glossary
  • Appendix B: List of those interviewed
  • Select bibliography
  • Index