Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa
How a Continent Is Escaping Silicon Valley's Long Shadow
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 em…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Wahome, Michel / Graham, Mark
- ISBN: 978-0-262-53818-3
- EAN: 9780262538183
- Produktnummer: 33527668
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
Über den Autor
Nicolas Friederici is Head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin.Michel Wahome is Responsible Research and Innovation Fellow at the University of Strathclyde.Mark Graham is Professor of Internet Geography at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford the editor (with William H. Dutton) of Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication Are Changing Our Lives.
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