9 research outputs found

    Nouvelles technologies et chômage en Afrique Subsaharienne

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    L’objectif de cet article est d’évaluer l’effet des nouvelles technologies sur le chômage dans les pays de l’Afrique Subsaharienne. Pour ce faire, un modèle à équations simultanées est spécifié et estimé avec la Méthode des Triples Moindres Carrés (TMC). Pour tester la robustesse des résultats, un modèle de panel dynamique est spécifié et estimé avec la Méthode des Moments Généralisés (GMM) en système. Les données utilisées sont celles de World Development Indicator (WDI) et de World Governance Indicator (WGI) observées sur la période 1991-2018. Les résultats montrent que les nouvelles technologies contribuent à la réduction du chômage dans les pays de l’Afrique Subsaharienne. Il est donc important d’encourager le développement des nouvelles technologies à travers le financement de la recherche et la facilitation de la maitrise de ces nouvelles technologies afin de réduire le taux de chômage dans les pays de l’Afrique Subsaharienne

    Mobile telephony access and usage in Africa

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    The study provides tools to identify policy interventions to improve ICT uptake and usage, and to define universal service obligations based on income and monthly usage costs. Results show what can be expected from lower access and usage costs in terms of market volume and new subscribers. Income is the main explanatory variable for usage. In terms of mobile expenditure, it is inelastic with respect to income. The share of mobile expenditure of individual income indicates that people with higher income spend a smaller proportion compared to those with lower income

    Learning with mobiles: The Global South

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    This article addresses the need to build sustainable, appropriate and authentic foundations for learning with mobiles in the Global South. It does this in two ways: first, by reviewing aspects of the current environment, namely the nature of learning with mobiles in the Global North, the relationships between research and policy in relation to learning with mobiles, the impact of mobile technology on language, and the meanings of international development; and second, by consolidating these within a broader and critical historical framework that sees education and technology as the instruments of the hegemony of the Global North, reinforcing its values and worldview. This is, however, methodologically challenging and problematic, and the article briefly considers how such arguments should be constructed. The article concludes by offering ways forward as the basis for practical progress
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