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Assessing the African mobile telephony boom : the impact of the mobile phone and its relationship to the digital divide
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/3791 Assessing the African mobile telephony boom : the impact of the mobile phone and its relationship to the digital divide Comninos, Alex Schrire, Robert International Relations Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-81). This dissertation provides an overview of the boom in mobile telephony in Africa, experienced in terms of exceptional and increasing subscriber growth. It provides a description of the mobile telephony boom, as well as its social political and economic impacts. It investigates what effect mobile telephony has had on the bridging of a broader digital divide, conceived of in terms of inequalities in access to information and communication technologies between Africa and the rest of the world, as well within Africa itself. It concludes that the boom in mobile telephony has had far-reaching impacts on the continent at all levels of African society. In particular, mobile phones have had a significant economic impact on the continent, which the author argues has been from the bottom up -affecting greatly the base of the economic pyramid and the informal sector. Mobile telephony has however not made a significant impact in the bridging of the digital divide conceived of in terms of access to the internet. A broader digital divide still exists which mobile telephony may not provide the tools to bridge. 2014-07-30T03:52:12Z 2014-07-30T03:52:12Z 2008 Master Thesis Masters MSocSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3791 eng application/pdf Department of Political Studies Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | International Relations Comninos, Alex Assessing the African mobile telephony boom : the impact of the mobile phone and its relationship to the digital divide |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Assessing the African mobile telephony boom : the impact of the mobile phone and its relationship to the digital divide |
| title_full | Assessing the African mobile telephony boom : the impact of the mobile phone and its relationship to the digital divide |
| title_fullStr | Assessing the African mobile telephony boom : the impact of the mobile phone and its relationship to the digital divide |
| title_full_unstemmed | Assessing the African mobile telephony boom : the impact of the mobile phone and its relationship to the digital divide |
| title_short | Assessing the African mobile telephony boom : the impact of the mobile phone and its relationship to the digital divide |
| title_sort | assessing the african mobile telephony boom the impact of the mobile phone and its relationship to the digital divide |
| topic | International Relations |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3791 |
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