Africa 2.0 : inside a continent's communications revolution /
Africa wired up 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 liberalization and privatization that needed to b...
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Manchester [UK] :
Manchester University Press,
2022.
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תוכן הענינים:
- Front matter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I: Technology diffusion: the spread of mobile calling and internet
- Prologue (1986-2004)
- Mobile voice calling booms (1993-2004)
- Bandwidth as the digital economy's fuel: getting sub-Saharan Africa connected (1991-2015)
- 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
- Mobile money: from transferring cash by SMS to a digital payments ecosystem (2000-20)
- Sub-Saharan Africans start to live the digital life (2000-20)
- Sprinkling on the magic dust: digital's impact on development (1982-2020)
- 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
- Sub-Saharan African start-ups: getting beyond the hype to address deep market challenges (1995-2020)
- Doing complexity: making sense of what has happened over thirty-five years
- Appendix A: Glossary
- Appendix B: List of those interviewed
- Select bibliography
- Index.