| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910820469103321 |
|
|
Autore |
Murphy James T. |
|
|
Titolo |
Africa's information revolution : technical regimes and production networks in South Africa and Tanzania / / James T. Murphy and Pádraig Carmody |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Chichester, [England] : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 |
|
©2015 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
1-118-75128-0 |
1-118-75132-9 |
1-118-75130-2 |
1-118-75131-0 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (282 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Classificazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Information technology - Economic aspects - South Africa |
Information technology - Economic aspects - Tanzania |
South Africa Economic conditions |
Tanzania Economic conditions |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Description based upon print version of record. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Is Africa "Rising" Through Informationalization? |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
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 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2. |
Record Nr. |
UNISALENTO991004381434707536 |
|
|
Autore |
Buffenoir, Hippolyte |
|
|
Titolo |
La comtesse d'Houdetot : une amie de J.-J. Rousseau / par Hippolyte Buffenoir |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Paris : Calmann Levy, stampa 1901 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
IV, 356 p., [1] carte di tav. : ritratto ; 23 cm |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
Les grandes dames du XVIIIe siècle |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Houdetot, Elisabeth Françoise Sophie de La Live de Bellegarde <contessa d'Houdetot> |
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques <1712-1778> |
Houdetot, Elisabeth Françoise Sophie de La Live de Bellegarde <contessa d'Houdetot> |
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques <1712-1778> |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
| |