Download or read book Negotiating the Net in Africa written by Ernest J. Wilson (III.) and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Negotiating the Net in Africa written by Ernest J. Wilson (III.) and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?A unique and important work.... The authors have talked with people who have not been talked with before, and put the information together in a way that could have a great impact on Internet diffusion and policy in Africa.??Kenneth Rogerson, Duke University?These well-researched, well-constructed case studies underscore the importance of the information sector for the future of developing countries.??Robert Ostergard, Jr., SUNY-Binghamton Why do national patterns of Internet expansion differ so greatly throughout Africa? To what extent do politics trump technology? Who are the ?information champions? in the various African states? Addressing these and related questions, Negotiating the Net in Africa explores the politics, economics, and technology of Internet diffusion across the continent.The ?Negotiating the Net? framework is applied consistently to chapters on Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, and Tanzania, allowing a rich, comparative analysis based on in-country research and extensive interviews with key stakeholders. Three broader chapters reflect a cross-cutting perspective. The result is a comprehensive discussion that, while dealing specifically with Africa, is also highly relevant to other regions in the developing world.Ernest J. Wilson III is professor of government at the University of Maryland and senior research fellow at the university?s Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM). His numerous publications include, most recently, The Information Revolution and Developing Countries and Does the Global Information Highway Lead to Africa, and he is founding editor in chief of the journal Information Technologies and International Development. Kelvin R. Wong is assistant research scientist at the University of Maryland and senior associate at CIDCM. He is comanager of the Africa Telematics Project, which focuses on research, policy reform, and project implementation in the field of information and communications technology.Contents. Introduction: Negotiating the Net in Africa?the Editors. Ghana: The Politics of Entrepreneurship?E. Osiakwan, W. Foster, and A. Pitsch Santiago. Guinea-Bissau: ?Pull and Tug? Toward Internet Diffusion?B.M. King. Kenya: Diffusion, Democracy, and Development?M. Muiruri. Rwanda: Balancing National Security and Development?A. Nsengiyumva and A. Pitsch Santiago. South Africa: The Internet Wars?C. Lewis. Tanzania: From Padlocks to Payments?J. Miller. The Role of International Cooperation?L. Adam. Conclusion?E.J. Wilson III.
Download or read book Politics of Trade Negotiations Between Africa and the European Economic Community written by I. William Zartman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do the weak negotiate with the strong and win some benefits in spite of their lack of power? This book covers all the complex trade negotiations conducted in the 1960's between the African states and the EEC. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book Negotiating the Net written by Charley Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adoption of an analytical approach based on the examination of “Critical Negotiation Issues” provides a vehicle for a richly textured account of policy contestation from the perspective of its participant actors. This approach also accounts for the impact of such contestation on the diffusion of the Internet in a developing country such as South Africa. By tracking issues that have highrelevance to the development of the Internet, that are highly contested, and which, if left unresolved, will impede diffusion, the changing policy environment and its impact can be better understood. In the case of South Africa four “Critical Negotiation Issues” in particular have impacted the development of the Internet: competition between ISPs and IAPs; access to facilities; telecommunications liberalization, privatization, and deregulation; and e-commerce policy.
Download or read book Africa s Role in Multilateral Trade Negotiations written by Zhen Kun Wang and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Africa s Role in Multilateral Trade Negotiations written by Zhen Kun Wang and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa won fewer concessions on their exports in the Uruguay Round than did other developing countries, but they still emerged facing fewer or lower restrictions than others. They should be more active in the next Round, focusing negotiations not on trade preferences but on bound most-favored-nation tariff reductions.Openness and liberal trade policies are associated with higher exports and economic growth. Sub-Saharan African countries are mostly still relatively closed, and one of their top priorities should be to open up. With some important, identifiable, exceptions African exports are not disproportionately restricted in OECD markets. Because of Sub-Saharan Africa's small economic size and because its decline in competitiveness has been spread over nearly all sectors, improvements in its performance should not unduly disturb other members of the world economy and should not encounter major resistance among trading partners.Sub-Saharan African countries won fewer concessions on their exports in the Uruguay Round than did other developing countries - possibly because they offered fewer concessions on imports. Nonetheless, because they started the Round with more favorable treatment, they still emerged from it facing fewer or lower restrictions than other developing countries.In the next Round of trade negotiations, Sub-Saharan countries have some rights to negotiate (according to the GATT/WTO principal suppliers traditions) and a little leverage. They should be active in this Round, both giving and requesting concessions, and economists should help them prepare the ground.Trade preferences are not the route to integrating with the world economy. In terms of access to partners' markets, trade preferences are no substitute for bound most-favored-nation tariff reductions, and they also encourage shortsighted and distortionary behavior within the recipients' economy. Africa should focus its negotiating efforts on most-favored-nation reductions rather than trade preferences.This paper - a joint product of the New Products and Outreach Division, Economic Development Institute, and Development Research Group - was prepared for the African Economic Research Consortium`s Biannual Research Workshop, Nairobi, May 24-29, 1997.
Download or read book The Politics of Trade Negotiations Between Africa and the European Economic Community written by I. William Zartman and published by . This book was released on 1971-01-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Africa and the World Trade Organisation written by Francis Mangeni and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Managing Ethnic Conflict in Africa written by Donald S. Rothchild and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Donald Rothchild analyzes the successes and failures of attempts at conflict resolution in different African countries and offers comprehensive ideas for successful mediation. The book demonstrates how negotiation and mediation can promote conflict resolution, along with a political environment that fosters development.
Download or read book African Agency and European Colonialism written by Femi James Kolapo and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides insights into important moments in the European colonization project in Africa, and into structural intersections between the active agents of colonialism and the different layers of Africa's socio-political structures. It reveals the indispensability of the African peoples, their pre-colonial establishments, and knowledge of the colonial encounter. The book also clarifies the significant impact that African people's choices, chances, mistakes, and internal politics had in structuring their colonial experience and European dominance. Colonized Africans and colonizing Europeans had to negotiate the nature of their relationship: the grid, nexus, and hierarchy of colonial power and authority were constantly under construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction. African Agency and European Colonialism expounds upon these beclouded features of Africa's engagement of colonialism. It is appropriate for students, scholars, political analysts, sociologists, and other professionals interested in the social and political history of Africa. Book jacket.
Download or read book Negotiating Access to Land in West Africa written by Philippe Lavigne Delville and published by IIED. This book was released on 2001-12-31 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land tenure and Resource Access in West Africa Programme
Download or read book Negotiating the Past written by Sarah Nuttall and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nations as well as individuals are in many ways the sum of their memories, which are shaped by perception as much as by events. This collection of essays by South African academics looks at the ways the country is dealing with its past, a complex mixture of colonialism, slavery, apartheid,struggle, and guilt. The emphasis is on how that past is being perceived and moulded in the post-apartheid era.
Download or read book Lawyering Imperial Encounters written by Sara Dezalay and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book revisits the relationship between the African continent and global capitalism since the nineteenth-century Scramble. It provides an unprecedented account of the correlation between the legacy of legal imperialism and British hegemony, and the expansion of finance and international law in the current rush for Africa's 'green' minerals"--
Download or read book Globalization Negotiation and the Failure of Transformation in South Africa written by Michael H. Allen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-07-21 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explains the social forces, forms of consciousness and structural constraints that undermined Apartheid, preserved national unity and yet, later constrained democratic sovereignty, as the imperatives of global markets clashed with the prior aspirations of the democratic revolution.
Download or read book The Crumbling Fa ade of African Debt Negotiations written by Matthew Martin and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-06-18 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of Sub-Saharan Africa's debt negotiations in the 1980s. It provides a framework for assessing the major types of debt negotiation, showing that faulty procedure made agreements vulnerable to failure, so that nobody was winning.
Download or read book The Collapse of Apartheid and the Dawn of Democracy in South Africa 1993 written by John C. Eby and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This game situates students in the Multiparty Negotiating Process taking place at the World Trade Center in Kempton Park in 1993. South Africa is facing tremendous social anxiety and violence. The object of the talks, and of the game, is to reach consensus for a constitution that will guide a post-apartheid South Africa. The country has immense racial diversity--white, black, Colored, Indian. For the negotiations, however, race turns out to be less critical than cultural, economic, and political diversity. Students are challenged to understand a complex landscape and to navigate a surprising web of alliances. The game focuses on the problem of transitioning a society conditioned to profound inequalities and harsh political repression into a more democratic, egalitarian system. Students will ponder carefully the meaning of democracy as a concept and may find that justice and equality are not always comfortable partners with liberty. While for the majority of South Africans, universal suffrage was a symbol of new democratic beginnings, it seemed to threaten the lives, families, and livelihoods of minorities and parties outside the African National Congress coalition. These deep tensions in the nature of democracy pose important questions about the character of justice and the best mechanisms for reaching national decisions. Free supplementary materials for this textbook are available at the Reacting to the Past website. Visit https://reacting.barnard.edu/instructor-resources, click on the RTTP Game Library link, and create a free account to download what is available.
Download or read book Negotiating Identities in Contemporary Africa written by Toyin Falola and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume provides an interdisciplinary and balanced discussion on the changing dynamics of identities in Africa, with a focus on gender, ethno-cultural, and religious identity.
