ICT Infrastructure Expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Analysis of Six West African Countries from 1995 to 2002

Bollou, Felix

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-9463-8_12

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“…The education level of the entrepreneur does not significantly influence the IT adoption differing from the results obtained in Bollou and Nwengyama (2008) and Bollou (2006).…”

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confidence: 86%

“…Contributions of this research paper can be the addition of empirical evidence, at a microeconomic level of the management and IT adoption and use in microenterprises, as the engine of local economic growth (Bollou, 2006;Bollou and Ngwenyama, 2008;Oliveira and Fraga, 2011;Bankole and Bankole, 2017;Asongu, Le Roux and Biekpe, 2018) due to the scarcity of researches in the area about this topic. The results can be used to develop a guide of good practices for micro-enterprises in the DRC that will develop these with more success, prosperity, growth and competitiveness.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Adoption of Information Technology by Micro-enterprises. Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

Estébanez

Grande

Espada³

2022

EJSD

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Although the Democratic Republic of the Congo has huge mineral reserves, it is one of the deprived countries caused by the continuous instability. Moreover, the micro-entrepreneurs have a very low level of knowledge in information technologies and its application in their businesses despite microenterprises can be crucial for the job generation, the improvement in their level of technologies and finally in the economic growth of their environment. The present research work aims to analyse what socioeconomic factors determine IT adoption and use in microenterprises in order to improve its sustainability. Through a quantitative and a qualitative research we studied the current situation of microbusinesses regarding their level of ICT. The results show that management and economic characteristics as well as the education level of the employees determine the level of IT adoption and use. This paper contributes with root evidence about the ICT use as an engine of sustainability development among the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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“…The education level of the entrepreneur does not significantly influence the IT adoption differing from the results obtained in Bollou and Nwengyama (2008) and Bollou (2006).…”

Section: Quantitative Researchcontrasting

confidence: 86%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adoption of Information Technology by Micro-enterprises. Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

Estébanez

Grande

Espada³

2022

EJSD

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“…Data envelopment analysis is one of the analyses used to measure the relative effectiveness of ICT. Bollou (2006) investigated the impact of ICT investments in the ICT sectors in six West African countries by using the DEA and some new analysis during the period of 1995 and 2002. Bollou examined the efficiency of ICT investments in ICT technical efficiency with regard to the expansion of ICT infrastructure and also investigated the efficiency of investments on GDP growth, and revenue growth.…”

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confidence: 99%

Efficiency of ICT development indicators in OECD countries

Tunalı¹,

Guz²,

şengün³

2017

Pressacademia

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Purpose-Information and communication technologies have a strong influence on sustainable economic growth and global competition. The countries that adapt to the speed of these technologies and have skills, infrastructure and accessibility to use these technologies will benefit from the strong influence of ICT. Various analyses, measurements, and comparisons are made to measure this effect. Methodology-Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Development Index prepared annually by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is a composite index calculated from eleven indicators to monitor developments in the field of ICT and make the comparison between countries. Findings-In this study, the efficiency of the indicators in the ICT Development Index (IDI) in OECD countries was examined by data envelopment analysis. Conclusion-By evaluating the relative effectiveness of the countries, the efficiency scores and reference values were determined for 2015.

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“…Consequently, the following terminologies "Techologie de l'Information et de la Communication au Cameroun" or "TIC au Cameroun" (for short) and "maquette numérique au Cameroun" were used. Based on this literature investigation, most ICT studies tend to focus on the following areas: a) impacts on poverty alleviation and development issues (Brown & Grant, 2010;Ngwenyama et al, 2006;Morawczynski & Ngwenyama, 2007;Chavula, 2013;Nkama, 2007), b) ICT types (Bollou, 2006;Chavula, 2013), c) diffusion or expansion of ICT in Africa (Bollou, 2006;Polikanov & Abramova, 2003), d) ICT in education, telemedicine, climate change, telecommunication, forestry (Koum & Etang, 2012;Mbile et al, 2003). Given that the findings from renowned repositories have yielded very little information about the use of BIM in Cameroon, the search was diverted to conferences and institutions dealing with ICT in Cameroon.…”

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Building Information Modelling in Cameroon

Abanda

Manjia

Pettang

et al. 2014

International Journal of 3-D Information Modeling

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BIM has recently gained ground in developed countries. However, the use of BIM in developing countries including Cameroon is not well-known. In this study, BIM implementation in Cameroon is explored. The research methods used are a pilot study, electronic email surveys and in-depth phone interviews. Altogether, 179 professionals having at least a Master's Degree in Civil Engineering from the National Advanced School of Engineering Yaoundé I - Cameroon, a leading engineering institution in Francophone Africa, were sampled. Forty six provided feedback yielding a response rate of 25.7%. It emerged that some BIM software are already being used in Cameroon. However, major barriers hindering BIM uptake are high license fee and lack of huge projects that can pay off the cost of investment in BIM. Perhaps, partly because the respondents were highly skilled, it emerged that the lack of expertise was/is not a major problem to use BIM in projects. Although this study is limited to Cameroon, many recommendations could be relevant to other African countries.

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ICT Infrastructure Expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Analysis of Six West African Countries from 1995 to 2002

Cited by 7 publications

References 6 publications

Adoption of Information Technology by Micro-enterprises. Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

Adoption of Information Technology by Micro-enterprises. Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

Efficiency of ICT development indicators in OECD countries

Building Information Modelling in Cameroon

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