05758nam 2200745 450 991082046910332120200520144314.01-118-75128-01-118-75132-91-118-75130-21-118-75131-0(CKB)3710000000342045(EBL)1926539(OCoLC)903436633(SSID)ssj0001420815(PQKBManifestationID)11934367(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001420815(PQKBWorkID)11403979(PQKB)10779429(Au-PeEL)EBL1926539(CaPaEBR)ebr11011150(CaONFJC)MIL708922(MiAaPQ)EBC1926539(PPN)186301413(EXLCZ)99371000000034204520150207h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAfrica's information revolution technical regimes and production networks in South Africa and Tanzania /James T. Murphy and Pádraig CarmodyChichester, [England] :Wiley Blackwell,2015.©20151 online resource (282 p.)RGS-IBG Book SeriesDescription based upon print version of record.1-118-75133-7 1-322-77640-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 AfricaPlugging 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 FrameworkConceptualizing 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 NetworksContextualizing 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 SalaamInward 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 EconomyIs Africa "Rising" Through Informationalization? 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 RGS-IBG book series.Information technologyEconomic aspectsSouth AfricaInformation technologyEconomic aspectsTanzaniaSouth AfricaEconomic conditionsTanzaniaEconomic conditionsInformation technologyEconomic aspectsInformation technologyEconomic aspects303.48330968SOC042000bisacshMurphy James T.174089Carmody PádraigMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820469103321Africa's information revolution4120243UNINA