The African challenge: Internet, networking and connectivity activities in a developing environment

Third World Quarterly

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 883-898

  Coeur De Roy, Olivier ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATIONS SECTOR; INFORMATION TACHNOLOGY; INTERNET;

AFRICA;

EID: 0031433184     PISSN: 01436597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01436599714641     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Teledensity = the number of phone lines per 100 inhabitants.
2. O Crepin-Leblond, 'International E-mail accessibility', Release 97.03.04. Available online at: http;// www.ee.ic.ac.uk/misc/country-codes.html.
3. TCP/IP = Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. It is a communication protocol that connects different systems to the internet.
4. O Creur de Roy & O Presno (eds), Réussir avec Internet, Paris: Ellipses, 1997.
5. ORSTOM is the French Institute of Scientific Research for Development in Cooperation.
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11. T Hall, 'Addis hosts historic superhighway conference, but will policymakers go with the vision?', paper presented to the Symposium on African Telematics, Ethiopia, 3-7 April 1995, available online at: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Padis/telmtcs_Hall.html; Knight, 'The telematics revolution in Africa'; and E. Wilson III, 'Africa and the global information infrastructure', available online at: http://www.us.net/afcom/welcome/gii.html, document not dated.
12. T Hall, 'Addis hosts historic superhighway conference, but will policymakers go with the vision?', paper presented to the Symposium on African Telematics, Ethiopia, 3-7 April 1995, available online at: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Padis/telmtcs_Hall.html; Knight, 'The telematics revolution in Africa'; and E. Wilson III, 'Africa and the global information infrastructure', available online at: http://www.us.net/afcom/welcome/gii.html, document not dated.
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14. The Maitland Commission is an international committee of telecommunication experts developed in 1983 by the ITU.
15. E Baranshamaje et al, 'Increasing internet connectivity in sub-Saharan Africa. Issues, options and World Bank Group role', draft document, 29 March 1995, available online at: http://www.worldbank.org/html/emc/ documents/africa0395.html, March 1995.
16. Knight, 'The telematics revolution in Africa'.
17. Ibid.
18. AUPELF-UREF is the Association of French Speaking Universities and the University of Networks of French Expression; REFER (Réseau Electronique Francophone d'Information) is the Francophone Electronic Network of Information; and SYFED (Système Francophone d'Edition et de Diffusion) is the Francophone System of Edition and Diffusion.