Africa's Information Revolution : Technical Regimes and Production Networks in South Africa and Tanzania.

Intro -- 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 Africa -- Plugging In, to What Ends? New ICTs and the Challenge of Global Market Integration -- Conclusion -- 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 -- Conceptualizing the Development Implications of ICTs: Thin and Thick Integration -- Conclusion -- 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.

Contextualizing ICT Integration and its Implications for Regimes and GPN Couplings -- Thick 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 -- Inward GPNs and Downgrading in Dar es Salaam -- Differentiation 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 -- Is Africa "Rising" Through Informationalization? -- Rethinking ICT4D Initiatives and Ideology -- Evolving Economic Geographies of the Global South: Sociotechnical Regimes and GPNs -- Notes -- References -- Index -- EULA.

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