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

Africa’s Information Revolution presents anin-depth examination of the development and economic geographiesaccompanying the rapid diffusion of new ICTs in Sub-SaharanAfrica.

• Represents the first book-length comparative case study ICTdiffusion in Africa of its kind
• Confronts current information and communication technologiesfor development (ICT4D) discourse by providing a counter to largelyoptimistic mainstream perspectives on Africa’s prospects form- and e-development
• Features comparative research based on more than 200 interviewswith firms from a manufacturing and service industry in Tanzaniaand South Africa
• Raises key insights regarding the structural challenges facingAfrica even in the context of the continent’s recent economicgrowth spurt
• Combines perspectives from economic and development geographyand science and technology studies to demonstrate the power ofintegrated conceptual-theoretical frameworks
• Include maps, photos, diagrams and tables to highlight theconcepts, field research settings, and key findings

Keywords: Geography of Development,

ICT, ICT integration, Africa development, Africa Rising, Africa economy, Africa information revolution, ICT4D, economic geography, development geography, STS, information geographies, technological change, african studies,