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Impact Report 2017-2019: Make-IT in Africa. Successfully Promoting Tech Entrepreneurship and the Innovation Ecosystems of Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria and Tunisia
Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2019), 71 pp.
"Make-IT started as a "laboratory" for new types of partnerships between development organisations, business, finance and entrepreneurs. After 2 years of implementation experience, we can proudly say that we have successfully combined the strengths of the public and private sectors to promote digita
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What Motivates ICT4D Champions?
Dar es Salaam: 15th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries (ICT4D) (2019), 12 pp.
"The paper seeks to identify the factors that motivate a person who champions ICT4D initiatives. Given the important contributions of ICT4D champions to initiative success, better understanding of their motivations holds the potential to identify, develop and deploy such individuals more effectively
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From Russia with Code: Programming Migrations in Post-Soviet Times
Durham: Duke University Press (2019), xii, 373 pp.
"While Russian computer scientists are notorious for their interference in the 2016 US presidential election, they are ubiquitous on Wall Street and coveted by international IT firms and often perceive themselves as the present manifestation of the past glory of Soviet scientific prowess. Drawing on
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Local Content Production and the Political Economy of the Mobile App Industries in Argentina and Bolivia
New Media & Society, volume 18, issue 8 (2016), pp. 1768-1786
"This article examines the targets and activities of mobile app developers in two Latin American economies – Argentina and Bolivia – analysing the political, social and economic conditions that connect or disconnect app developers and the interests of local users. Findings suggest that app distr
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"The objective of the Study Module is to enhance the business knowledge of undergraduate and graduate students of arts, humanities and media and communications, i.e. individuals, who have potential to be (self) employed after their graduation in the field of creative industries. Special focus in the
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Toward Entrepreneurial Behavior in Underserved Communities: An Ethnographic Decision Tree Model of Telecenter Usage
Information Technology for Development, volume 19, issue 3 (2013), pp. 230-248
"This paper investigates the decision-making process of community members who decide on using telecenters for entrepreneurial endeavors. A qualitative approach through interviews with telecenter staff and users is used to assess the barriers and enablers to economic activity through use of telecente
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Information and Communications for Development: Maximizing Mobile
Washington, DC: World Bank (2012), xviii, 221 pp.
"Analyzes the growth and evolution of mobile telephony, including the rise of data-based services delivered to handheld devices through “apps” (applications) and other ways. Summarizing current thinking and seeking to inform the debate on the use of mobile phones to improve livelihoods, the repo
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Tunisia: From Revolutions to Institutions
Washington, DC: infoDev Information for Development Program (2012), 121 pp.
"The study “Tunisia: from revolutions to institutions” stresses how technology-oriented small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) can generate economic expansion and job growth, including in the economically-isolated interior provinces. Tunisian ICT companies are likely to find an attractive marke
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The Digital Dump: Exporting Re-Use and Abuse to Africa
Seattle: Basel Action Network (BAN) (2005), 42 pp. + annexes
How to Set Up and Operate a Successful Computer Refurbishment Centre in Africa: A Planning and Management Guide. Prepared as Part of the Catalysing Access to ICT in Africa (CATIA) Programme, UK Department for International Development (DFID): Component 2a - Open Source Software and Low-Cost Computing
Cape Town: bridges.org (2004), 39 pp. + annexes
Clean Up Your Computer: Working Conditions in the Electronics Sector
London: CAFOD (2003), 40 pp.
"Its products may embody the latest in high technology, but labour standards and conditions in computer manufacturing can be appallingly low. Many stages of computer production are carried out by low-skilled, low-paid workers – most of them women – in developing countries. But unlike their count
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