Learning on ScreenAfrica’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
- enquiries@oii.ox.ac.uk
- Web
- http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 01865 287210
- Fax
- 01865 287211
- Address
- University of Oxford
1 St Giles
Oxford
OX1 3JS
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