[PDF] Attitudes Toward Africa And Technology eBook

Author : James Baba Abugre
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 18,22 MB
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3030705382

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This book covers various aspects of business such as Entrepreneurship, HR management, Supply chain management, Marketing, Finance, and Globalization within the Africa Context, especially as digital technology changes the African society. Private and NGOs are emerging with greater capabilities and affecting the development of Africa, and this volume explores the impact of such change. This edited volume honours the exemplary contribution of Professor William Darley to the creation and development of the Academy of African Business and Development (AABD). The book is intended for graduate students and researchers interested in business development and practices in Africa.

Author : Wawasi Kitetu
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 48,90 MB
Release : 2008-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 2869784007

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This sixth volume of the CODESRIA Gender Series is a collection of discourses, perspectives, practices and policies on the role of the female gender in science and technology, particularly in the African context. Although widely advocated as the indisputable foundation for political and economic power in the modern world, science and technology remains marked by various layers and dimensions of gender inequality that work to the disadvantage of girls and women. Despite the fact that a lot of awareness has been created, and gender issues are now more readily acknowledged by various development initiatives in Africa, participation in science and technology still remains a hurdle as far as girls and women are concerned. A common theme that runs through the book is how feminine identities, ideologies of domesticity and gender stereotypes, and the inadequacy or lack of clear policies facilitate the invisibility of women in science and technology. This notwithstanding, women have never ceased devising clever and ingenious ways that would enable them to master nature, from the margins. The book provides a window onto the current state of female participation in science and technology in Africa, along with an analysis of the historical backgrounds, current educational and professional contexts, and prospects for the future. While it is evident that more research needs to be done, with more groups in different regions, this volume brings together a rich and inspiring collection of qualitative insights on gender, science and technology in Africa. The CODESRIA Gender Series acknowledges the need to challenge the masculinities underpinning the structures of repression that target women. The series aims to keep alive and nourish African social science research with insightful research and debates that challenge conventional wisdom, structures and ideologies that are narrowly informed by caricatures of gender realities. It strives to showcase the best in African gender research and provide a platform for emerging new talents to flower.

Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 10,49 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Industrial policy
ISBN : 0889367906

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Technology Policy and Practice in Africa

Author : Adegoke Oke
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,97 MB
Release : 2014
Category :
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Extant literature on technology adoption and diffusion has generally focused on understanding the adoption and diffusion patterns of new technologies in developed countries (Irwin & Paul, 2003). However, there is a need to understand the influence of economic status on the adoption of technology in less developed countries. Our overall objective is to investigate the antecedents of communications technology adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, based on a representative sample of individual respondents from Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria, we investigate the influence of economic status, which we define as the ability to meet the physiological or basic needs for food and shelter, on technology adoption. We identify positive attitudes, which we define as individuals' optimistic feelings how their standard of life is improving, as a process through which economic status influences the decision to adopt technology. Additionally, because infrastructure development affects individuals' quality of life and thus their feelings about how their standard of life is improving, we posit that the influence of economic status on both positive attitudes and technology adoption will be contingent upon perceptions about the extent of current infrastructure development. This study will also shed light on pertinent factors that global firms willing to tap into LDC markets will find invaluable in evaluating market opportunities for transferring and introducing innovative technologies into such markets.

Author : P. Thandika Mkandawire
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,91 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 155250204X

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Our Continent, Our Future presents the emerging African perspective on this complex issue. The authors use as background their own extensive experience and a collection of 30 individual studies, 25 of which were from African economists, to summarize this African perspective and articulate a path for the future. They underscore the need to be sensitive to each country's unique history and current condition. They argue for a broader policy agenda and for a much more active role for the state within what is largely a market economy. Finally, they stress that Africa must, and can, compete in an increasingly globalized world and, perhaps most importantly, that Africans must assume the leading role in defining the continent's development agenda.

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 17,22 MB
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9231001299

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There are fewer grounds today than in the past to deplore a North‑South divide in research and innovation. This is one of the key findings of the UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030. A large number of countries are now incorporating science, technology and innovation in their national development agenda, in order to make their economies less reliant on raw materials and more rooted in knowledge. Most research and development (R&D) is taking place in high-income countries, but innovation of some kind is now occurring across the full spectrum of income levels according to the first survey of manufacturing companies in 65 countries conducted by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and summarized in this report. For many lower-income countries, sustainable development has become an integral part of their national development plans for the next 10–20 years. Among higher-income countries, a firm commitment to sustainable development is often coupled with the desire to maintain competitiveness in global markets that are increasingly leaning towards ‘green’ technologies. The quest for clean energy and greater energy efficiency now figures among the research priorities of numerous countries. Written by more than 50 experts who are each covering the country or region from which they hail, the UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030 provides more country-level information than ever before. The trends and developments in science, technology and innovation policy and governance between 2009 and mid-2015 described here provide essential baseline information on the concerns and priorities of countries that could orient the implementation and drive the assessment of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the years to come.

Author : Iginio Gagliardone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 44,90 MB
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107177855

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Influencing Policy without Influencing Technology