Africa's Information Revolution E-Book

James T. Murphy

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Serie: RGS-IBG Book Series
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 541

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

Africa’s Information Revolution was recently announced as the 2016 prizewinner of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences - congratulations to the authors James T. Murphy and Padraig Carmody!

Africa’s Information Revolution presents an in-depth examination of the development and economic geographies accompanying the rapid diffusion of new ICTs in Sub-Saharan Africa.

• Represents the first book-length comparative case study ICT diffusion in Africa of its kind
• 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
• Features comparative research based on more than 200 interviews with firms from a manufacturing and service industry in Tanzania and South Africa
• Raises key insights regarding the structural challenges facing Africa even in the context of the continent’s recent economic growth spurt
• Combines perspectives from economic and development geography and science and technology studies to demonstrate the power of integrated conceptual-theoretical frameworks
• Include maps, photos, diagrams and tables to highlight the concepts, field research settings, and key findings

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Africa's Information Revolution

Technical Regimes and Production Networks in South Africa and Tanzania

James T. Murphy and Pádraig Carmody

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Acknowledgements

A huge number of people made this book possible. In particular we would like to thank all of the interview participants for their time and insights. We are also grateful to our research assistants and post-doctoral fellows, Ralph Borland, Adrian Corcoran, Amir Mohd Anwar, David Kirima, John Lauermann, Jackson Mongi, Alex Sphar and Bjoern Surborg, for their excellent contributions in support of the project. Jim Murphy further thanks Sam Wangwe for his assistance with the Dar es Salaam portion of the research and Pamela Dunkle at Clark University for administering and managing the research grant associated with the project.

This material is based upon work supported by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) under grant no. 0925151 that was awarded to James Murphy and Pádraig Carmody. Additional support for Pádraig’s work came from a Senior Research Fellowship awarded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF or IRCHSS.

We would also like to thank the publishers of the following for permission to reproduce excerpts, tables, images, and/or figures from these articles in this book:

Anwar, M.A., Carmody, P., Surborg, B. and Corcoran, A. (2013) The diffusion and impacts of information and communication technology on tourism in the Western Cape, South Africa, Urban Forum, October. Netherlands: Springer, DOI: 10.1007/s12132-013-9210-4

Carmody, P. (2012) The informationalization of poverty in Africa: The mobile phone revolution and economic structure, Information Technologies and International Development 8(3): 1–17.

Murphy, J.T., Carmody, P. and Surborg, B. (2014) Industrial transformation or business as usual? Information-communication technologies and Africa’s place in the global information economy, Review of African Political Economy 41(140): 264–83.

Murphy, J.T. (2013) Transforming small, medium, and microscale enterprises? Information-communication technologies (ICTs) and industrial change in Tanzania, Environment and Planning A 45(7): 1753–72.

Numerous other individuals provided constructive and significant insights regarding the work and our findings. We particularly thank the referees and editors for the Review of African Political Economy, Urban Forum, Environment and Planning AandInternational Technologies and International Development for their comments on papers, parts of which appear in revised form here. Additional thanks goes to Chris Benner, Richard Heeks, Dorothea Kleine and Stefano Ponte for their comments at various stages along the way.

At Wiley-Blackwell, sincere thanks and appreciation go to the series editor, Professor Neil Coe, for his detailed, constructive, and timely comments. We also thank Jacqueline Scott, Allison Kostka, and the staff at W-B for their superb handling of the submission and production process.

James T. Murphy and Pádraig CarmodyWorcester, USA and Dublin, Ireland17 July 2014