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ICT pathways to poverty reduction : empirical evidence from East and Southern Africa / edited by Edith Ofwona Adera, Timothy M. Waema, Julian May, Ophelia Mascarenhas, and Kathleen Diga.

Contributor(s): Adera, Edith Ofwona [editor of compilation.] | Waema, T. M [editor of compilation.] | May, Julian (Julian D.) [editor of compilation.] | Mascarenhas, Ophelia [editor of compilation.] | Diga, Kathleen [editor of compilation.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookDescription: xvii, 254 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781853398155 (hbk.); 1853398152 (hbk.); 1853398160 (pbk.); 9781853398162 (pbk.).Subject(s): Poverty -- Africa, East | Poverty -- Africa, Southern | Information technology -- Social aspects -- Africa, East | Information technology -- Social aspects -- Africa, Southern | Communication and technology -- Africa, East | Communication and technology -- Africa, Southern
Contents:
The ICT/poverty nexus in Africa / Julian May, Timothy M. Waema, and Elise Bjåstad -- Information and communication technologies as a pathway from poverty : evidence from East Africa / Julian May, Vaughan Dutton, and Louis Munyakazi -- Political economy of ICTs and their effect on poverty / Obadia Okinda Miroro and Edith Ofwona Adera -- Livelihood and ICTs in East Africa / Aileen Agüero, Roxana Barrantes, and Timothy M. Waema -- Access and use of ICT and its contribution to poverty reduction in Kenya / Timothy M. Waema and Obadia Okinda Miroro -- Impact of enhanced access to ICTs on small and microenterprises in Tanzania / Ophelia Mascarenhas -- Mobile phones and the food price crisis in Rwanda / Kathleen Diga, Claude Bizimana, Felix Korbla Akorli, and François Bar -- The complexities of establishing causality between an ICT intervention and changes in quality of life : CLIQ in South Africa / Heidi Attwood, Kathleen Diga, and Julian May -- Internet gone mobile in Namibia / Christoph Stork and Enrico Calandro.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The ICT/poverty nexus in Africa / Julian May, Timothy M. Waema, and Elise Bjåstad -- Information and communication technologies as a pathway from poverty : evidence from East Africa / Julian May, Vaughan Dutton, and Louis Munyakazi -- Political economy of ICTs and their effect on poverty / Obadia Okinda Miroro and Edith Ofwona Adera -- Livelihood and ICTs in East Africa / Aileen Agüero, Roxana Barrantes, and Timothy M. Waema -- Access and use of ICT and its contribution to poverty reduction in Kenya / Timothy M. Waema and Obadia Okinda Miroro -- Impact of enhanced access to ICTs on small and microenterprises in Tanzania / Ophelia Mascarenhas -- Mobile phones and the food price crisis in Rwanda / Kathleen Diga, Claude Bizimana, Felix Korbla Akorli, and François Bar -- The complexities of establishing causality between an ICT intervention and changes in quality of life : CLIQ in South Africa / Heidi Attwood, Kathleen Diga, and Julian May -- Internet gone mobile in Namibia / Christoph Stork and Enrico Calandro.

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