LEADER 05758nam 2200745 450 001 9910820469103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-118-75128-0 010 $a1-118-75132-9 010 $a1-118-75130-2 010 $a1-118-75131-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000342045 035 $a(EBL)1926539 035 $a(OCoLC)903436633 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001420815 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11934367 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001420815 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11403979 035 $a(PQKB)10779429 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1926539 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11011150 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL708922 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1926539 035 $a(PPN)186301413 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000342045 100 $a20150207h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAfrica's information revolution $etechnical regimes and production networks in South Africa and Tanzania /$fJames T. Murphy and Pa?draig Carmody 210 1$aChichester, [England] :$cWiley Blackwell,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (282 p.) 225 1 $aRGS-IBG Book Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-118-75133-7 311 $a1-322-77640-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTitle 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 327 $aPlugging 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 327 $aConceptualizing 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 327 $aContextualizing 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 327 $aInward 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 327 $aIs Africa "Rising" Through Informationalization? 330 $a Africa's Information Revolution presents an in-depth examination of the development and economic geographies accompanying the rapid diffusion of new ICTs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Represents the first book-length comparative case study ICT diffusion in Africa of its kind Confronts current information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) discourse by providing a counter to largely optimistic mainstream perspectives on Africa's prospects for m- and e-development Features comparative research based on more than 200 interviews with firms from a manufacturing and service industry 410 0$aRGS-IBG book series. 606 $aInformation technology$xEconomic aspects$zSouth Africa 606 $aInformation technology$xEconomic aspects$zTanzania 607 $aSouth Africa$xEconomic conditions 607 $aTanzania$xEconomic conditions 615 0$aInformation technology$xEconomic aspects 615 0$aInformation technology$xEconomic aspects 676 $a303.48330968 686 $aSOC042000$2bisacsh 700 $aMurphy$b James T.$0174089 702 $aCarmody$b Pa?draig 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820469103321 996 $aAfrica's information revolution$94120243 997 $aUNINA