The Computer And Africa

Author : David Ruxton Fraser Taylor
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Computer and Africa written by David Ruxton Fraser Taylor and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1977 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on computer and EDP applications in Africa - discusses feasibility of establishing an integrated electronic network of public administration information, use of computers in university research, demography, psychology, mapping and humanities, management information systems and forecasting, etc. Bibliography pp. 309 to 332, diagrams, flow charts and maps.

Author : Bennetta Jules-Rosette
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110857235
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terminal Signs written by Bennetta Jules-Rosette and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terminal signs : computers and social change in Africa Approaches to Semiotics [AS].

Author : Suzanne Grant Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429714351
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Microcomputers In African Development written by Suzanne Grant Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on recent research in the Sudan, Ivory Coast, Kenya and Tanzania, the contributing authors analyze broad patterns of social and political change brought about by the rapidly increasingly use of microcomputer technology in Africa.

Author : Nicolas Friederici
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026236283X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa written by Nicolas Friederici and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hope and hype about African digital entrepreneurship, contrasted with the reality on the ground in local ecosystems. In recent years, Africa has seen a digital entrepreneurship boom, with hundreds of millions of dollars poured into tech cities, entrepreneurship trainings, coworking spaces, innovation prizes, and investment funds. Politicians and technologists have offered Silicon Valley-influenced narratives of boundless opportunity and exponential growth, in which internet-enabled entrepreneurship allows Africa to "leapfrog" developmental stages to take a leading role in the digital revolution. This book contrasts these aspirations with empirical research about what is actually happening on the ground. The authors find that although the digital revolution has empowered local entrepreneurs, it does not untether local economies from the continent's structural legacies.

Author : Evans E. Woherem
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information Technology in Africa written by Evans E. Woherem and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : African Creation Energy
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9781300498919
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Khnum-Ptah to Computer written by African Creation Energy and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Khnum-Ptah to Computer" presents a comparative analysis between a variety of concepts, customs, cosmologies, and practices found in African Cultures to topics related to the field of Computer Science. The African origin of Binary Code, Logic, Computers, Programming, Robotics, Cyborgs, Androids, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Transhumanism are examined using Sound Right Reason to show a relationship between two dichotomies that have more in common than what meets the eye

Author : Don Osborn
Publisher : IDRC
ISBN 13 : 0796922497
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Languages in a Digital Age written by Don Osborn and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2010 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With increasing numbers of computers and diffusion of the internet around the world, localisation of the technology, and the content it carries, into the many languages people speak is becoming an ever more important area for discussion and action. Localisation, simply put, includes translation and cultural adaptation of user interfaces and software applications, as well as the creation and translation of internet content in diverse languages. It is essential in making information and communication technology more accessible to the populations of the poorer countries, increasing its relevance to their lives, needs, and aspirations, and ultimately in bridging the 'digital divide'.

Author : Abdoulaye Gamatié
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319082396
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Computing in Research and Development in Africa written by Abdoulaye Gamatié and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-11 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the trends, challenges and solutions in computing use for scientific research and development within different domains in Africa, such as health, agriculture, environment, economy, energy, education and engineering. The benefits expected are discussed by a number of recognized, domain-specific experts, with a common theme being computing as solution enabler. This book is the first document providing such a representative up-to-date view on this topic at the continent level.

Author : Marc Maxmeister
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781534864603
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Computer Curious written by Marc Maxmeister and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-19 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer Curious retells my 2003-2004 adventures of exotic discomfort on the open road (in Gambia, Senegal, Ghana), ill-conceived conceits to bring Internet to remote villages, launching rocket yams in the name of science, wandering through a refugee camp as a letter courier, hobnobbing with power mongers of the digital era in African capitols, and - more generally - the journey to understand how education fosters creativity. Back in the early 2000s, before Facebook existed, before Google was a verb, African youths were flocking to the Internet. I trekked across Gambia, Senegal, and Ghana in search of what drew them to the Internet. After visits to 30 schools and hundreds of Interviews, I discovered that curiosity and a drive to create in a culture where education stifles creativity was the deeper reason behind the allure of the Internet. In this book I focus on why and how computer culture evolved in Africa, and wrap it in my own narrative of discovery. These stories also illustrate the twisted fate of "development work." It illustrates the good that a Peace Corps Volunteer and Fulbright Researcher can do in Africa, and offers cautionary tales of ignorant people who try too hard to help without listening to the people they aim to serve. These stories from the dawn of the computer age in Africa offer poignant lessons on how we can tell the difference - and it's time we learned how. I hope this book inspires and instructs others who started out as naive as I was, but are willing to work with others to build a brighter, more creative world.

Author : Bruce Sinclair
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262195041
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology and the African-American Experience written by Bruce Sinclair and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intersection of race and technology: blackcreativity and the economic and social functions of the myth ofdisengenuity.