Disruptive Technologies, Innovation and Development in Africa

Peter Arthur is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Development Studies at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada.Kobena T. Hanson is Principal Evaluation Capacity Development Officer at the African Development Bank in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.Korbla P. Puplampu teaches in the Department of Sociology at Grant MacEwan University, Canada.

• 1. Disruptive Technologies, Innovation and Transformation in Africa: The Present and Future.- 2. Disruptive Technologies, Democracy, Governance, and National Elections in Africa: Back to the Future?.- 3. Agricultural Research and Innovation: Disruptive Technologies and Value Chain Development in Africa.- 4. Disruptive Technologies and Scientific Innovations: Integrated Smart Sensors, Pollution and E-waste in Africa.- 5. Disruptive Technologies, Sustainable Energy Generation and Storage as Forms of Green Economy.- 6. Disruptive Technologies and the African Health Care Crisis: A Path to Sustainability.- 7. Disruptive Technology and Knowledge Development: African Universities, Human Capital and Educating for Global Citizenship.- 8. Disruptive Financial Technology (FinTech) and Entrepreneurship in Burkina Faso.- 9. Disruptive Technology, Mobile Money and Financial Mobilization in Africa: M-Pesa as Kenya’s Solution to Global Financial Exclusion?.- 10. SMEs, Industrialization and DisruptiveTechnologies in Africa: Enabling or Constraining?.- 11. Disruptive Technology, Foreign Direct Investment and Private Sector Development Policies in Africa.- 12. Perspectives on Disruptive Innovations and Africa’s Services Sector.- 13. Automation of Knowledge Work and Africa’s Transformation Agenda: Threats, Opportunities and Possibilities.- 14. Digital Transformation: A Connected and ‘Disrupted’ Africa.