Africa 2.0: inside a continent's communications revolution
Africa wired up provides an important history of how two technologies - mobile calling and internet - were made available to millions of Sub-Saharan Africans and the impact they have had on their lives. The book deals with the political challenges of liberalization and privatization that needed to b...
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description | Africa wired up provides an important history of how two
technologies - mobile calling and internet - were made available to
millions of Sub-Saharan Africans and the impact they have had on
their lives. The book deals with the political challenges of
liberalization and privatization that needed to be in place to get
these technologies built. It analyses how the mobile phone
fundamentally changed communications in Sub-Saharan Africa and the
ways Africans have made these technologies part of their lives. It
examines critically the technologies' impact on development
practices and the key role development actors played in
accelerating things like regulatory reform, fibre roll-out and
mobile money. The book considers how corruption in the industry is
a prism through which patronage relationships in Government can be
understood. The arrival of a start-up ecosystem has the potential
to break these relationships and offer a new wave of investment
opportunities. The author seeks to go beyond the hype to make a
provisional assessment of the kinds of changes that have happened
over three decades. It examines how and why these technologies
became transformative and seem to have opened out a very different
future for Sub-Saharan Africa. |
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liberalization and privatization that needed to be in place to get
these technologies built. It analyses how the mobile phone
fundamentally changed communications in Sub-Saharan Africa and the
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examines critically the technologies' impact on development
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accelerating things like regulatory reform, fibre roll-out and
mobile money. The book considers how corruption in the industry is
a prism through which patronage relationships in Government can be
understood. The arrival of a start-up ecosystem has the potential
to break these relationships and offer a new wave of investment
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examines critically the technologies' impact on development
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accelerating things like regulatory reform, fibre roll-out and
mobile money. The book considers how corruption in the industry is
a prism through which patronage relationships in Government can be
understood. The arrival of a start-up ecosystem has the potential
to break these relationships and offer a new wave of investment
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millions of Sub-Saharan Africans and the impact they have had on
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liberalization and privatization that needed to be in place to get
these technologies built. It analyses how the mobile phone
fundamentally changed communications in Sub-Saharan Africa and the
ways Africans have made these technologies part of their lives. It
examines critically the technologies' impact on development
practices and the key role development actors played in
accelerating things like regulatory reform, fibre roll-out and
mobile money. The book considers how corruption in the industry is
a prism through which patronage relationships in Government can be
understood. The arrival of a start-up ecosystem has the potential
to break these relationships and offer a new wave of investment
opportunities. The author seeks to go beyond the hype to make a
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