Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2014.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 305.56909676
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm)
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- fe-----
- ISBN
- 9781853398155 9781552505397
- LCCN
- HC860
- LCCN Item number
- I28 2014eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- StDuBDS
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xvii, 254 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00234232 (OCoLC)876861033 (CaOOCEL)447402
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- StDuBDS
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 8
- Figures and tables 9
- Foreword 12
- Acknowledgements 14
- Acronyms and abbreviations 15
- 1 Introduction: The ICT/poverty nexus in Africa 20
- 2 Information and communication technologies as a pathway from poverty: evidence from East Africa 52
- 3 Political economy of ICTs and their effect on poverty 72
- 4 Livelihood and ICTs in East Africa 96
- 5 Access and use of ICT and its contribution to poverty reduction in Kenya 120
- 6 Impact of enhanced access to ICTs on small and microenterprises in Tanzania 152
- 7 Mobile phones and the food price crisis in Rwanda 178
- 8 The complexities of establishing causality between an ICT intervention and changes in quality of life: CLIQ in South Africa 198
- 9 Internet gone mobile in Namibia 224
- 10 Conclusion and recommendations 246
- Index 264
- A 264
- B 264
- C 264
- D 265
- E 265
- F 266
- G 266
- H 267
- I 267
- J 267
- K 268
- L 268
- M 269
- N 269
- O 270
- P 270
- Q 271
- R 271
- S 271
- T 272
- U 273
- V 273
- W 273
- Z 273