Mobile Phones in Africa: How Much Do We Really Know?

Autor/inn/en	James, Jeffrey; Versteeg, Mila
Titel	Mobile Phones in Africa: How Much Do We Really Know?
Quelle	In: Social Indicators Research, 84 (2007) 1, S.117-126 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0303-8300
DOI	10.1007/s11205-006-9079-x
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Developing Nations; Social Indicators; Telecommunications; Information Technology; Africa; Tanzania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Social indicator; Sozialer Indikator; Telekommunikationstechnik; Informationstechnologie; Afrika; Tansania
Abstract	Mobile phones are a crucial mode of communication and welfare enhancement in poor countries, especially those lacking an infrastructure of fixed lines. In recent years much has been written about how mobile telephony in Africa is rapidly reducing the digital divide with developed countries. Yet, when one examines the evidence it is not at all clear what is really happening. In one country, Tanzania, for example, some observers point to the fact that 97% of the population lives under the mobile footprint, while others show that ownership is very limited. These extreme values prompted us to review the situation in Africa as a whole, in an effort to discover what is really going on. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10