Title ICT pathways to poverty reduction : empirical evidence from East and Southern Africa / edited by Edith Ofwona Adera, Timothy M. Waema, Julian May, Ophelia Mascarenhas and Kathleen Diga

Published Rugby : Practical Action Publishing, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource Contents The ICT/poverty nexus in Africa / Julian May, Timothy M. Waema, and Elise Bjåstad -- Information and communication technologies as a pathway from poverty : evidence from East Africa / Julian May, Vaughan Dutton, and Louis Munyakazi -- Political economy of ICTs and their effect on poverty / Obadia Okinda Miroro and Edith Ofwona Adera -- Livelihood and ICTs in East Africa / Aileen Agüero, Roxana Barrantes, and Timothy M. Waema -- Access and use of ICT and its contribution to poverty reduction in Kenya / Timothy M. Waema and Obadia Okinda Miroro -- Impact of enhanced access to ICTs on small and microenterprises in Tanzania / Ophelia Mascarenhas -- Mobile phones and the food price crisis in Rwanda / Kathleen Diga, Claude Bizimana, Felix Korbla Akorli, and François Bar -- The complexities of establishing causality between an ICT intervention and changes in quality of life : CLIQ in South Africa / Heidi Attwood, Kathleen Diga, and Julian May -- Internet gone mobile in Namibia / Christoph Stork and Enrico Calandro Summary Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been proven to promote economic growth, but do we know that ICTs reduce poverty? This book provides new empirical evidence on access to and use of ICTs and their effect on poor households in four East African countries: Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. It addresses the questions: Do women benefit economically from using ICTs? Are the livelihoods of rural users boosted? Which ICTs are being used by low-income entrepreneurs? Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Poverty -- Africa, East Poverty -- Africa, Southern Information technology -- Social aspects -- Africa, East Information technology -- Social aspects -- Africa, Southern Poverty & unemployment. Development studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Information technology -- Social aspects Poverty Poverty & unemployment. Development studies. Society. Africa, East Southern Africa Form Electronic book Author Adera, Edith Ofwona, editor Waema, T. M., editor May, Julian (Julian D.), editor. Mascarenhas, Ophelia, editor Diga, Kathleen, editor. LC no. 2013478899 ISBN 9781461958727 1461958725 9781552505397 1552505391 9781780448152 1780448155

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