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| Title: | Communication, new technologies and socio-economic development of Africa |
| Editor: | Obijiofor, Levi |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Periodical: | Africa Media Review (ISSN 0258-4913) |
| Volume: | 16 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pages: | 132 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | West Africa Niger Senegal South Africa Zambia |
| Subjects: | information technology Internet telecommunications mobile telephone |
| Abstract: | Even with evidence of a positive relationship between new information and communication technologies (ICTs) and socioeconomic development in various parts of the world, there are still many obstacles that hinder the uptake of ICTs in both urban and rural areas of Africa. This special issue of 'Africa Media Review' assesses the situation in a number of African countries. Christian Agbobli discusses the use of Internet within the framework of a development project in Senegal, the Acacia Initiative, which set up four telecentres in the country. Kutoma Jacqueline Wakunuma examines an electronic record system in Zambia, where ICTs have been adopted and are being used innovatively in one area of the health sector - perinatal care. Gado Alzouma investigates the effects of mobile phone use on relationships among people in Niger on the basis of fieldwork conducted in 2003 and 2004. Thandeka Priscilla Mapi, Lorenzo Dalvit and Alfredo Terzoli explore how a community in Dwesa, a marginalized area in the Transkei region of the Eastern Cape, South Africa, has adopted ICTs through the Siyakhula project. An article by Oumar Kane, in French, gives a comparative analysis of developments in the telecommunications sector in Senegal and South Africa. Finally, Moustapha Samb's contribution, also in French, deals with regulatory bodies in the media sector in West Africa. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
