"Digital transformations have had catalytic efects on African and European governance, economies, and societies, and will continue to do so. The COVID-19 pandemic has already accelerated the penetration of digital tools all over the globe and is likely to be perceived as a critical juncture in how a
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nd to what purpose the world accepts and uses new and emerging technologies. This book ofers a holistic analysis of how Africa and Europe can manage and harness digital transformation as partners in a globalised world. The authors shed light on issues ranging from economic growth, youth employment, and gender, to regulatory frameworks, business environments, entrepreneurship, and interest-driven power politics. They add much-needed perspectives to the debates that shape the two continents’ digital transformation and innovation environments." (Publisher description)
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"To a certain extent the field's shortcomings could be the consequence of academic work increasingly trapped in the normativity of the development industry and out of touch with the variety of agents concerned with social injustice worldwide, who are deploying communication and media strategies to a
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dvance their struggles." (Page 134)
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"Examine la production et la distribution de matériel culturel et multimédia en Afrique francophone subsaharienne et l'impact des nouvelles technologies sur les réseaux de communication." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 378)
"One of the significant approaches to the problem of reducing international tensions and thus liberating forces for economic and social development has been the phenomenal increase in recent years in international exchanges. These have been defined in the Unesco Handbook of International Exchanges a
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s "the movement of persons, materials and information across frontiers in such a way as to communicate ideas and knowledge by word or image". The notion of exchange, it goes on, 'împlies some degree of reciprocity, in the sense that there are two or more partners in the process and that they have a more or less mutual effect on each other, but it does not necessarily imply an exact head-to-head accounting of persons sent and received". The magnitude of exchange activity is also indicated in this publication which provides information on the activities of 295 international organizations and over 4, 750 governmental and non-governmental agencies and institutions. It also lists no fewer than 4, 600 bilateral and multilateral agreements. While these agreements are primarily the concern of the nations themselves, Unesco and other international organizations can make an important contribution to the developing strategy for surmounting the obstacles to international understanding and co-operation. The present publication attempts to describe both the needs and the difficulties in the development of cultural co-operation as well as Unesco's efforts in this field." (Introduction)
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"The full impact of satellite communication will be realized only when it becomes feasible to spacecast directly into homes, facilitating inexpensive long-distance calls and enabling conferences to be held via telephone and closed-circuit television. Business travel will diminish. Space communicatio
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n, by increasing the flow of information and its speed of availability and by bypassing the editorial process, can produce a less informed, rather than a better informed, public opinion, and may create tension due to hasty decisions. There will be technical problems of frequency allocation, compatibility of standards, and control of programs and legal problems of copyright and protection against commercial exploitation. Major artistic and political events will be viewed world-wide, simultaneously, reducing parochialism and xenophobia. Communication satellites will aid education, especially in developing countries and facilitate interlibrary exchange of information. They should also create a mutual flow of information between the developed and the developing nations. Information from the latter should cover normal developments in the news, not just crisis situations. An appendix lists participants. This document is based upon papers submitted to the UNESCO meeting of experts on the use of space communication by the mass media (Paris, December 6-10, 1965)." (https://eric.ed.gov)
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