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Africa's information revolution : technical regimes and production networks in South Africa and Tanzania /
"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"--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA, USA :
John Wiley & Sons Inc.,
2015.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Murphy, James T., |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Africa's information revolution : |b technical regimes and production networks in South Africa and Tanzania / |c James T. Murphy, Padraig Carmody. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; |a Malden, MA, USA : |b John Wiley & Sons Inc., |c 2015. | |
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| 520 | |a "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"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 500 | |a 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. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One ICT4D: The Making of a Neoliberalized Meta-discourse (with Bjoern Surborg); ICT4D; Electronic and Mobile E-/M-Business; The Making and Materialization of a Meta-discourse; Governance and ICT4D; ICTs as objects of ideology; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter Two ICTs and Economic Development in Africa: Theorizing Channels, Assessing Impacts; ICTs and (Imminent) Economic Development; ICTs, Poverty, and Immanent Development; The Prospects for Information(alized) Economies in Africa | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Plugging In, to What Ends? New ICTs and the Challenge of Global Market IntegrationConclusion; Notes; Chapter Three ICTs, Industrial Change, and Globalization in Africa: A Conceptual Framework; The Limitations on Existing ICT4D Conceptual Frameworks; Conceptualizing the Contribution of ICTs to Imminent Development; Conceptualizing ICTs and Immanent Development: Sociotechnical Regimes and GPNs; Industries as Sociotechnical Regimes; Global Production Networks (GPNs) and Couplings to Industrial Regimes; Integrating the Conceptual Approaches: A Multi-scalar Framework | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Conceptualizing the Development Implications of ICTs: Thin and Thick IntegrationConclusion; Notes; Chapter Four ICTs in Action: SMMEs and Industrial Change in South Africa and Tanzania; Situating the Analysis: South Africa and Tanzania's Tourism and Wood Products Sectors; Methodological Approach; ICTs and Imminent Development in South Africa and Tanzania's Wood Products Sectors; ICTs and Imminent Development in South Africa and Tanzania's Tourism Sectors; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter Five ICT Integration, Sociotechnical Regimes, and Global Production Networks | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Contextualizing ICT Integration and its Implications for Regimes and GPN CouplingsThick Integration in Wood Products and Tourism Regimes; Thin or Thick Integration in Tanzania and South Africa?; Thintegration and its Supply-Side Drivers; Thintegration and its Demand-Side Drivers; ICT Integration in Wood Products Regimes and GPN Couplings; ICT Integration in Tourism Regimes and GPN Couplings; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter Six Downgrading and Differentiation in African SMMEs; Downgrading of African Industries: General Trends; Downgrading in Dar es Salaam | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Inward GPNs and Downgrading in Dar es SalaamDifferentiation in Durban; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter Seven Emerging Regime and GPN Configurations: Neo-intermediation and ICT-enabled Extraversion (with Bjoern Surborg); Neo-intermediation and Reconfigured GPNs in the Tourism Industry; Neo-intermediation and the Reconfiguration of Zanzibar's GPN Couplings; TripAdvisor: Center of Calculation and Site of Place Fetishization; Conclusion: Neo-intermediation and ICT-enabled Extraversion; Notes; Chapter Eight Conclusion; Major Trends: Deepening Dependence in an Informationalized Global Economy | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Information technology |x Economic aspects |z Tanzania. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Telecommunication |x Economic aspects |z South Africa. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Telecommunication |x Economic aspects |z Tanzania. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Economic development |z Tanzania. | |
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| 651 | 0 | |a Tanzania |x Economic conditions. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Technologie de l'information |x Aspect économique |z Afrique du Sud. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Télécommunications |x Aspect économique |z Afrique du Sud. | |
| 651 | 6 | |a Afrique du Sud |x Conditions économiques. | |
| 651 | 6 | |a Tanzanie |x Conditions économiques. | |
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| 700 | 1 | |a Carmody, Pádraig Risteard, |e author. | |
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