Paper Info
Title
Building The African Information Society
Abstract
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has introduced many changes over the last decades causing a socio-economic evolution based on information acquisition and knowledge dissemination. It helped create an emering global information-based society with innovative means of communication that can help in increasing competitiveness for individuals, organisations and societies. ICT has helped generate new forms and structures ob business, social and economic entities that are no longer bound by geographic or time constraints, but instead depend mainly on being connected all the time. This article addresses the efforts taking place in Africa to minimise the digital gap and actively join the global information society. Many African nations have invested heavily in building their ICT infrastructure to help improve the readiness of their communities and this article provides an overview of some of the projects implemented to build the African information society while demonstrating some the lessons learned and experiences acquired.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1504/IJTM.2009.021520
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT
Keywords
Field
DocType
IT transfer to developing countries, digital devide, IT for socioeconomic development, information society, developing economy, Africa, digital inclusion, knowledge society, ICT4D
Economics,Digital divide,Information technology,Socioeconomic development,Developing country,Knowledge management,Information and Communications Technology,Knowledge dissemination,Information society,Marketing,Knowledge society
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
45
1-2
0267-5730
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
3
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sherif Kamel1319.93