Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been proven to promote economic growth, but do we know that ICTs reduce poverty? This book provides new empirical evidence on access to and use of ICTs and their effect on poor households in four East African countries: Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. It addresses the questions: Do women benefit economically from using ICTs? Are the livelihoods of rural users boosted? Which ICTs are being used by low-income entrepreneurs?
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
