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Africa 2.0 provides an important history of how two technologies -
mobile calling and internet - were made available to millions of
sub-Saharan Africans, and the impact they have had on their lives.
The book deals with the political challenges of liberalisation and
privatisation that needed to be in place in order for these
technologies to be built. It analyses how the mobile phone
fundamentally changed communications in sub-Saharan Africa and the
ways Africans have made these technologies part of their lives,
opening up a very different future. The book offers a critical
examination of the impact these technologies have had on
development practices, and the key role development actors played
in accelerating regulatory reform, fibre roll-out and mobile money.
Southwood shows how corruption in the industry is a prism through
which patronage relationships in government can be understood, and
argues that the arrival of a start-up ecosystem in the region has
the potential to change this. A vital overview of the changes of
the last three decades, Africa 2.0 examines the transformative
effects of mobile and internet technologies, and the very different
future they have opened out for sub-Saharan Africa. -- .
Africa 2.0 provides an important history of how two technologies -
mobile calling and internet - were made available to millions of
sub-Saharan Africans, and the impact they have had on their lives.
The book deals with the political challenges of liberalisation and
privatisation that needed to be in place in order for these
technologies to be built. It analyses how the mobile phone
fundamentally changed communications in sub-Saharan Africa and the
ways Africans have made these technologies part of their lives,
opening up a very different future. The book offers a critical
examination of the impact these technologies have had on
development practices, and the key role development actors played
in accelerating regulatory reform, fibre roll-out and mobile money.
Southwood shows how corruption in the industry is a prism through
which patronage relationships in government can be understood, and
argues that the arrival of a start-up ecosystem in the region has
the potential to change this. A vital overview of the changes of
the last three decades, Africa 2.0 examines the transformative
effects of mobile and internet technologies, and the very different
future they have opened out for sub-Saharan Africa. -- .
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