Challenges of digital development in Àfrica

Galina Aleksandrovna Orlova, Aleksander Nikolayevich Zelenuk and Viktor Nikolayevich Kirillov
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Galina Aleksandrovna Orlova: Russian Foreign Trade Academy, Moscow, Russia
Aleksander Nikolayevich Zelenuk: Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) MFA Russia, Moscow, Russia
Viktor Nikolayevich Kirillov: State University of Management, Moscow, Russia

Russian Foreign Economic Journal, 2019, issue 11, 64-72

Abstract: The authors emphasize the relatively low level of digital technologies development in African countries, especially in comparison with industrialized countries. They note that the density of installed computers on the world’s second largest continent is low and identify the main factors hindering the solution to this problem. The main impediments include low level of knowledge and skills in the use of electronic equipment for data processing, lack of the compelling government programs promoting the use of computer equipment, low density of telecommunication channels and skilled labour shortage.

Keywords: Africa; computers; digital technologies; the need for training; the lack of government programs on computer skills development. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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