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    Technologie de l'Information et de la Communication et Performance des Petites et Moyennes Entreprises en Republic du Congo / Information and Communication Technologies and Performance of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in the Republic of the Congo

    "Les Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (TIC) contribuent au renforcement de la performance des Petites et Moyennes Entreprises (PME) des villes de Brazzaville et Pointe-Noire. Elles permettent aux PME congolaises de réduire leurs…

    Rene Samba, Dr

    • Les Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (TIC)
    • Information and Communication Technologies (ICT's)
    • Petites et Moyennes Entreprises (PME)
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
    • Economic development
    • Information technology
    4 pages

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    The Role of Public Sentiment and Social Media in the Evolving China-Africa Relationship

    "The demands of public diplomacy have shifted with the development of social media technologies. Increasingly, governments are required to gauge and respond to public sentiment over and above the one-way communication of broadcast media. The socia…

    Yu-Shan Wu

    • Communication Technology
    • Social Media
    • China-Africa Relations
    • Diplomacy
    • International trade
    • Information technology
    • Mass media and international relations
    26 pages

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    Information Lives of the Poor Fighting Poverty with Technology

    "Information and communication have always opened opportunities for the poor to earn income, reduce isolation, and respond resiliently to disasters, conflicts, and emergencies. With mobile phone use exploding across the developing world, even margi…

    Laurent Elder

    Rohan Samarajiva

    Alison Gillwald

    Hernán Galperin

    • Technological Innovations
    • Poverty Reduction
    • Information Communication and Technologies (ICT)
    • Mobile Technology
    • Information technology
    • Economic development
    • Poverty
    107 pages

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    ICT Pathways to Poverty Reduction: Empirical Evidence from East and Southern Africa

    "The research reported in this volume was undertaken at a time when the poor were starting to take part in the information society through the usage of ICTs. Current stories were and still are encountered in the press every day on how the mobile pho…

    Edith Ofwona Adera

    Timothy M. Waema

    Julian May

    • Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
    • Livelihoods
    • Mobile Technology
    • Food Security
    • Poverty Reduction
    • Political Economy
    • Information technology
    • Poverty
    • Sustainable living
    273 pages

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    Could ICT be the Solution to Woo Youth to Agriculture?

    "Agriculture still remains the backbone of Kenya’s economy sustaining over 75% of the homesteads in the country. It accounts for 27% of Kenya’s real Gross Domestic Product (GDP), 60% of the total export earnings as well as 45% of government revenue…

    F. Rono

    C. Tonui

    Serah Nderitu

    S. Kirui

    • Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
    • Livelihoods
    • Capacity Building
    • Information technology
    • Agricultural resources
    4 pages

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    Regional Co-operation in the Telecommunications Sector via CRASA

    "This case study examines the telecommunications sector in Southern Africa and the role that the Communications Regulators’ Association Southern Africa (CRASA)1 plays in encouraging policy harmonisation between member states of the Southern African …

    Talitha Bertelsmann-Scott

    • Telecommunications
    • Southern African Development community (SADC)
    • Regional Co-operation
    • Information technology
    • Regionalism
    6 pages

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    The Quest for an Information Society : Benchmarking the Regulatory Framework to Usher Kenya in to the Information Era

    "The ICT sector is being examined in this paper from the policy, regulatory, and operational levels and examines the interplay of the regulator and its role to catalyse the business environment, the consumer demands and the resulting successes and c…

    Muriuki Mureithi

    • Kenya Information Society
    • Information and Communication Technologies (ICT's)
    • Cellular Services
    • Information technology
    • Electronic commerce
    • Economic development
    49 pages

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    The E-Voucher - A Feasible Option for Implementing the Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP)

    The government has been implementing a farmer input subsidy known as Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP) which involved distribution of subsidized fertilizer and seed to smallholder farmers. The aim was to increase agricultural productivity, rura…

    FANRPAN

    • E-Voucher
    • Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP)
    • Poverty Reduction
    • Agricultural resources
    • Information technology
    4 pages

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    Role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Climate Change Awareness in Seke and Murewa Districts of Zimbabwe

    "The paper examines the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in contributing to climate change awareness in rural areas. It is based on a cross sectional study that was conducted in Seke and Murewa districts in Mashonaland East …

    Shakespear Mudombi

    • Information and Communication Technologies
    • Smallholder Farmers
    • Climate Change Adaptation
    • Climatic changes
    • Information technology
    32 pages

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    Using the Land Potential Knowledge System (LandPKS) Mobile Technology for Agricultural Productivity and Resilience

    "Africa’s continued agricultural growth over the last couple of years has come from land expansion rather than increased productivity. However, available agricultural lands are rapidly diminishing due to urbanization, while soil fertility continu…

    Nicholas Ozor

    Ernest Nti Acheampong

    Jeffrey Herrick

    Adam Beh

    • Land Potential Knowledge System
    • Agricultural Production
    • Agricultural resources
    • Information technology
    16 pages

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    Mainstreaming Gender in the National Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Policy of Kenya

    This policy brief aims to influence mainstreaming of gender in the national STI policy of Kenya. Reports show that Kenya is still far from realizing gender equity and equality in practice. This policy brief proposes a specific policy statement on ma…

    Nicholas Ozor

    Peggy Oti-Boateng

    David Otwoma

    Edwardina Ndhine

    • Gender Equality
    • Science, Technology and Innovation
    • Economic development--Planning
    • Research and development projects
    • Information technology
    20 pages

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    The African Technopolitan Vol 5 January 2016

    This issue of the African Technopolitan has as its main article " The poverty of development strategy in Africa". This article argues that Africa’s economic and techno-scientific progress is being lionized prematurely, to the detriment of its long t…

    African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS)

    • Biotechnology
    • Skills Development
    • Mobile Technology
    • Middle Class
    • Conflict
    • Fossil Fuel
    • Security Services
    • Poverty
    • International trade
    • Information technology
    • Agricultural resources
    • Public health
    184 pages

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    Strengthening National Intellectual Property Policy and Legal Frameworks in Eastern and Southern Africa: A Communication Strategy

    "The goal of the programme is to strengthen policy and legal framework development for Traditional Knowledge (TK), Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) and effective IP Systems in the Eastern and Southern Africa. The purpose of the programme is to promo…

    African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS)

    • Traditional Knowledge
    • Communication Strategy
    • Media
    • Research institutes
    • Information technology
    • Intellectual property--Government policy
    17 pages

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    ICTs and Health Technology at the Grassroots Level in Africa

    "One of the central questions of the 21st century is how technology is producing a change in our mode of operation and how its benefits can be used and applied positively. Today’s communications technology has enormous potential for helping people …

    Margaret Nyambura Ndung’u

    • Community Health Information Systems
    • Information and Communication Technology
    • Information technology
    • Public health
    23 pages

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    The African Technopolitan May 2016 Special Issue: 3D Printing Africa's Development

    This issue is dedicated to different aspects and uses of 3D printing and how this technology can shape and influence Africa's development and policies. Articles included in this issue touch on the influence that 3D printing can have on medical resea…

    African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS)

    • Manufacturing
    • 3D Printing
    • Sustainable Growth
    • Information technology
    • Education
    29 pages

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    The African Technopolitan Vol 2 January 2015

    "In this Issue of the African Technopolitan, we challenge African countries to think big again and to act boldly to harness applications of science, technology and innovation for economic and social development. In the lead article of the Magazine…

    African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS)

    • Information and Communication Technology
    • Digital Technologies
    • Cloud Computing
    • Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
    • Technological innovations--Economic aspects
    • Information technology
    • Economic development
    • International trade
    60 pages

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    Developing Policies for Biodiversity Informatics in sub-Saharan Africa

    "In Africa, biodiversity provides a fundamental role in economic livelihood and societal wellbeing. Africa boasts of a sizeable proportion of the world’s natural resources and biodiversity, yet this fundamental natural asset upon which life depend…

    Nicholas Ozor

    Ernest Nti Acheampong

    Dorothy Njagi

    • Biodiversity
    • Biodiversity Informatics
    • Policy Development
    • Natural resources
    • Information technology
    13 pages

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    Contribution of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Climate Change Awareness in Seke and Murewa Districts of Zimbabwe

    "This study seeks to explore the role of ICTs in climate change awareness in rural areas. It is based on a cross sectional study that was conducted in Seke and Murewa districts in Mashonaland East province of Zimbabwe. The findings indicate that the…

    Shakespear Mudombi

    Mammo Muchie

    • Climate Change Adaptation
    • Smallholder Farmers
    • Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
    • Information technology
    • Climatic changes
    34 pages

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    Impact of ICT Investment, Ownership and Use in the Cassava Value Chain in South Western Nigeria

    "Most of Africa’s peoples live in rural areas where agriculture is the main economic activity. In Nigeria, for instance, agriculture is the occupation of more than 60 per cent of the total work force, providing both formal and informal employment fo…

    M. A. Tiamiyu

    A. S. Bankole

    R. O. Agbonlahor

    • Cassava Value Chain
    • Small and Medium Enterprises (SME)
    • Information Communication and Technologies (ICT)
    • Productivity
    • Information technology
    • Economic development
    • Agricultural resources
    3 pages

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    Information and Communication Technologies and Agricultural Development in Sub Saharan Africa: Transformation and Employment Generation

    "This paper uses secondary information to give an overview of applications of ICT for economic change in the agricultural sector, as well as for the socio-economic transformation of the wider agrarian economy. Its objective in doing this is to ident…

    Julian May

    Joseph Karugia

    Mimi Ndokweni

    • Information and Communication Technology
    • Agricultural Development
    • Socioeconomic Transformation
    • Agriculture--Economic aspects
    • Information technology
    51 pages

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