Microcomputers in African Development - Critical Perspectives

Drawing on recent research in the Sudan, Ivory Coast, Kenya and Tanzania, the contributing authors analyze broad patterns of social and political change brought about by the rapidly increasingly use of microcomputer technology in Africa.

List of contents

Computerization as a political process, Suzanne Grant Lewis, Joel Samoff; African bureaucracy and the computer metaphor, Bruce Berman; foreign assistance agencies as advocates and innovators, John Daly; centralized planning for microcomputer adoption and use - the experience of Tanzania, S. Grant Lewis; the emergence of new social forms in the workplace - computer contracts in Kenya and Ivory Coast, Bennetta Jules-Rosette; recognizing the assumptions in microcomputer use for development planning, Craig Calhoun, Pamela deLargy; microcomputer adoption and the rise of a computer elite, S. Grant Lewis.

About the author

Suzanne Grant Lewis (Author) , Joel Samoff (Author)

Summary

Drawing on recent research in the Sudan, Ivory Coast, Kenya and Tanzania, the contributing authors analyze broad patterns of social and political change brought about by the rapidly increasingly use of microcomputer technology in Africa.

Product details

• Authors: Suzanne Samoff Grant Lewis, Suzanne Grant Lewis, Lewis Suzanne Grant
• Assisted by: Suzanne Grant Lewis (Editor), Joel Samoff (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780367021825
• ISBN: 978-0-367-02182-5
• No. of pages: 270
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, Politics & government, Politics and government, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity