Africa's Information Revolution

James T. Murphy is Associate Professor at Clark University’s Graduate School of Geography.  He is co-author of Key Concepts in Economic Geography (2011).  Pádraig Carmody is Associate Professor in Geography at Trinity College Dublin, where he co-directs the TCD-UCD Masters in Development Practice and Research Fellow in the Department of Geography, Environmental Management and Energy Studies at the University of Johannesburg. His books include The New Scramble for Africa (2011) and The Rise of the BRICS in Africa (2013).

• Series Editors’ Preface viii Acknowledgements ixAbbreviations xiIntroduction xiii1 ICT4D: The Making of a Neoliberalized Meta-discourse (with Bjoern Surborg) 12 ICTs and Economic Development in Africa: Theorizing Channels, Assessing Impacts 253 ICTs, Industrial Change, and Globalization in Africa: A Conceptual Framework 474 ICTs in Action: SMMEs and Industrial Change in South Africa and Tanzania 735 ICT Integration, Sociotechnical Regimes, and Global Production Networks 1136 Downgrading and Differentiation in African SMMEs 1477 Emerging Regime and GPN Configurations: Neo-intermediation and ICT-enabled Extraversion (with Bjoern Surborg) 1768 Conclusion 200References 215Index 243

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