Africa’s Information Revolution: Rhetoric and Reality

Synopsis

Video podcast from the Oxford Internet Institute. Padrig Carmody analyses the phenomenal recent growth in mobile phone and internet usage in Africa. Based on over two hundred firm level interviews in Tanzania and South Africa this talk explores the impacts of the ‘information revolution’ on small and medium enterprise development and attempts to asess whether this diffusion of communication infrastructures and artefacts has been as economically transformative as has been claimed. [73 minutes]

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Year of release

2015

Subjects

Development studies; Information technology

Keywords

Africa; Internet; mobile phones; South Africa; Tanzania; communication technology

Online availability

URI

http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/africa-s-information-revolution-rhetoric-and-reality-0

Price

free

Delivery

Streamed/Download

Credits

Contributor

Padraig Carmody

Distributor

Name

Oxford Internet Institute

Email

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Web

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Phone

01865 287210

Fax

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Address

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