Digital Kenya
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Digital Kenya
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Author : Bitange Ndemo
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-11-18
Digital Kenya written by Bitange Ndemo and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-18 with Business & Economics categories.
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. Presenting rigorous and original research, this volume offers key insights into the historical, cultural, social, economic and political forces at play in the creation of world-class ICT innovations in Kenya. Following the arrival of fiber-optic cables in 2009, Digital Kenya examines why the initial entrepreneurial spirit and digital revolution has begun to falter despite support from motivated entrepreneurs, international investors, policy experts and others. Written by engaged scholars and professionals in the field, the book offers 15 eye-opening chapters and 14 one-on-one conversations with entrepreneurs and investors to ask why establishing ICT start-ups on a continental and global scale remains a challenge on the “Silicon Savannah”. The authors present evidence-based recommendations to help Kenya to continue producing globally impactful ICT innovations that improve the lives of those still waiting on the side-lines, and to inspire other nations to do the same.
Digital Kenya
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Author : Bitange Ndemo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-10-09
Digital Kenya written by Bitange Ndemo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-09 with Business & Economics categories.
Presenting rigorous and original research, this volume offers key insights into the historical, cultural, social, economic and political forces at play in the creation of world-class ICT innovations in Kenya. Following the arrival of fiber-optic cables in 2009, Digital Kenya examines why the initial entrepreneurial spirit and digital revolution has begun to falter despite support from motivated entrepreneurs, international investors, policy experts and others. Written by engaged scholars and professionals in the field, the book offers 15 eye-opening chapters and 14 one-on-one conversations with entrepreneurs and investors to ask why establishing ICT start-ups on a continental and global scale remains a challenge on the "Silicon Savannah". The authors present evidence-based recommendations to help Kenya to continue producing globally impactful ICT innovations that improve the lives of those still waiting on the side-lines, and to inspire other nations to do the same. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Digital Democracy Analogue Politics
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Author : Nanjala Nyabola
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-11-15
Digital Democracy Analogue Politics written by Nanjala Nyabola and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-15 with Political Science categories.
From the upheavals of recent national elections to the success of the #MyDressMyChoice feminist movement, digital platforms have already had a dramatic impact on political life in Kenya – one of the most electronically advanced countries in Africa. While the impact of the Digital Age on Western politics has been extensively debated, there is still little appreciation of how it has been felt in developing countries such as Kenya, where Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and other online platforms are increasingly a part of everyday life. Written by a respected Kenyan activist and researcher at the forefront of political online struggles, this book presents a unique contribution to the debate on digital democracy. For traditionally marginalised groups, particularly women and people with disabilities, digital spaces have allowed Kenyans to build new communities which transcend old ethnic and gender divisions. But the picture is far from wholly positive. Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics explores the drastic efforts being made by elites to contain online activism, as well as how 'fake news', a failed digital vote-counting system and the incumbent president's recruitment of Cambridge Analytica contributed to tensions around the 2017 elections. Reframing digital democracy from the African perspective, Nyabola's ground-breaking work opens up new ways of understanding our current global online era.
Digital Democracy Analogue Politics
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Author : Nanjala Nyabola
language : en
Publisher:
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Digital Democracy Analogue Politics written by Nanjala Nyabola and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Electronic books categories.
Part I:Analogue politics --1.2007: the violent origins of Kenya's digital decade --2.Avatars in the square : theorising the Kenyan public sphere --3.Collision course : where analogue meets digital --4.Rattling the snake without getting bitten: new media usurping traditional media in Kenya --Part II:Digital democracy? --5. AnAfrican country in the digital age : the making and uses of #KOT --6.Redefining community : the politics of public performances of empathy --7.Women at work : Kenyan feminist organising on social media --8.Politics, predators and profit : ethnicity, hate speech and digital colonialism --Part III.History not learned from --9.2017 : the most expensive election in the world --10.Conclusion.
Reimagining Money
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Author : Sibel Kusimba
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2021-01-05
Reimagining Money written by Sibel Kusimba and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-05 with Social Science categories.
Technology is rapidly changing the way we think about money. Digital payment has been slow to take off in the United States but is displacing cash in countries as diverse as China, Kenya, and Sweden. In Reimagining Money, Sibel Kusimba describes the rise of M-Pesa, and offers a rich portrait of how this technology changes the economic and social landscape, allowing users to create webs of relationships as they exchange, pool, borrow, lend, and share digital money in user-built networks. These networks, Kusimba argues, will shape the future of financial technologies and their impact on poverty, inclusion, and empowerment. She describes how urban and transnational migrants maintain a presence in rural areas through money gifts; how families use crowdfunding software to assemble donations for emergency medical care; and how new financial groups invest in real estate and fund weddings. The author presents fascinating accounts that challenge accepted wisdom by examining the notion of money as wealth-in-people—an idea long-cultivated in sub-Saharan Africa and now brought to bear on the digital age with homegrown financial technologies such as digital money transfer, digital microloans, and crowdfunding. The book concludes by proposing a new theory of money that can be applied to designing better financial technologies in the future.
Digital Technologies For Information Knowledge Management
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Author : Tom Kwanya
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Digital Technologies For Information Knowledge Management written by Tom Kwanya and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Digital libraries categories.
Examining The Gender Digital Divide A Case Study From Rural Kenya
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Author : Ferguson, Nathaniel
language : en
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Release Date : 2023-11-27
Examining The Gender Digital Divide A Case Study From Rural Kenya written by Ferguson, Nathaniel and has been published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-27 with Political Science categories.
Worldwide, cell phones are used by 5.4 billion people. They are becoming increasingly prevalent in the rural areas of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), providing smallholder farmers with access to agricultural markets. If they reduce information asymmetries between women and men farmers, they can also contribute to closing the gender gap in agricultural productivity. So far, however, digital innovations have had limited success in transforming agricultural systems. This may be due, in part, to the gender gap in cell-phone use. Rural women in LMICs—particularly those with low incomes, low literacy levels, or disabilities—are less likely than rural men to have access to cell phones, the Internet, digital currency, or other digital services. This policy note summarizes research intended to shed light on the impact of cell-phone ownership and use on the gender gap in agricultural productivity in LMICs.
Digital Development In East Africa
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Author : Warigia M. Bowman
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-10-24
Digital Development In East Africa written by Warigia M. Bowman and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-24 with Political Science categories.
This book uses comparative case study methodology and extensive field work to examine and compare outcomes of four East African nations (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Rwanda) that implemented formal Information and Communications Technology policies in the 1990s. Based on extensive fieldwork, the book assesses the emergence of a new policy and technological arena from the turn of the millennium to the present. In addition to tracing the implementation and reception of these policies, Bowman considers to what extent the politics of infrastructure in four connected but distinct African nations have resulted in global participation and equitable distribution and access of infrastructure to all citizens, as well as the impact a recent history of war or peace have on the technological outcomes in these communities. The book provides us with invaluable new data on how policy and politics function in emerging democracies, and illuminates long-overlooked opportunities and conditions necessary for the distribution of new and potentially beneficial technologies in other developing countries.
Digital Combat
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Author : Amos Kibet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Digital Combat written by Amos Kibet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Digital television categories.
Africa S Development Dynamics 2021 Digital Transformation For Quality Jobs
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Author : African Union Commission
language : en
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Release Date : 2021-01-19
Africa S Development Dynamics 2021 Digital Transformation For Quality Jobs written by African Union Commission and has been published by OECD Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-19 with categories.
Africa’s Development Dynamics uses lessons learned in the continent’s five regions – Central, East, North, Southern and West Africa – to develop policy recommendations and share good practices. Drawing on the most recent statistics, this analysis of development dynamics attempts to help African leaders reach the targets of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 at all levels: continental, regional, national and local.