TY - BOOK
T1 - Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa
T2 - How a Continent Is Escaping Silicon Valley's Long Shadow
AU - Friederici, Nicolas
AU - Wahome, Michel
AU - Graham, Mark
PY - 2020/7/28
Y1 - 2020/7/28
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - digital entrepreneurship
KW - Africa
KW - digital revolution
UR - https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/digital-entrepreneurship-africa
U2 - 10.7551/mitpress/12453.001.0001
DO - 10.7551/mitpress/12453.001.0001
M3 - Book
SN - 9780262538183
BT - Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa
CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts
ER -