Global agenda and ICT4D in Africa: Constraints of localizing ‘universal norm’

Tokunbo Ojo

Telecommunications Policy, 2016, vol. 40, issue 7, 704-713

Abstract: In 1996, as part of the global ICT for development phenomenon, the Africa Information Society Initiative (AISI) was launched as the action framework for the building of ICT infrastructure in Africa. Its goals included the digital connection of every African village to the global information network by the year 2010, and the leapfrogging of Africa's development through ICTs. Over a decade after the enactment of the AISI, many villages are still without electricity, and lack access to Internet services and other core ICTs. Based on the data gathered from qualitative semi-structured interviews and secondary sources, this paper analyzes the challenges and obstacles that have confronted the AISI implementation and ICT4D agenda in Africa. It examines the implication of these challenges and potential ways of addressing them.

Keywords: Africa; Leapfrogging; ICT4D agenda; AISI; International development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2016.05.002

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