Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa: How a Continent Is Escaping Silicon Valley’s Long Shadow
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2020
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780262362832
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780262538183
- Publisher:
- MIT Press
- Date of Addition:
- 07/28/20
- Copyrighted By:
- Nicolas Friederici, Michel Wahome, Mark Graham
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Computers and Internet, Business and Finance
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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