Overview
- Highlights strategies for development in Sub-Saharan Africa through information and communication technologies, with implications for other emerging markets
- Features contributions from scholars, industry leaders and policymakers from many spheres, including economic development, education, management and regulation
- Considers the institutional, commercial, financial context in which platforms and technologies converge
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The Economics of Information, Communication, and Entertainment (ECOINFORM)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This volume features contributions from a conference held in Lusaka, Zambia, to explore the role and prospects of broadband in Africa as a video platform—with emphasis on the strategies and building blocks for deployment and advancement.
While it may seem that such networks and their applications are not a realistic scenario for developing countries, it would be short-sighted and economically dangerous to ignore the emerging trends. The pace of introduction of next-generation networks in industrialized countries is rapid and the developing world will not be able to stand aside. The risks of falling behind are great and in any country there will be elements of business and society who wish to forge ahead. Policymakers and network architects need to be prepared. Media companies and broadcasters, in particular, must be alert to the new developments as should be medical and educational institutions. The availability of advanced high-speed business application tools in a country will affect its participation in international transactions and its economic growth.
This volume features contributions from industry leaders, policymakers and scholars, representing a variety of perspectives, including technology and infrastructure management, economic development, marketing, education and health. The authors collectively discuss how broadband deployment as a platform with sufficient speed for video may be encouraged by public policy and regulation and how investment in broadband for this and related purposes can improve the quality of life and experience in Sub Saharan Africa in media and data, while being a financeable, commercially sound business.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Broadband as a Video Platform
Book Subtitle: Strategies for Africa
Editors: Judith O'Neill, Eli M. Noam, Darcy Gerbarg
Series Title: The Economics of Information, Communication, and Entertainment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03617-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-03616-8Published: 18 February 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37872-5Published: 27 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-03617-5Published: 05 February 2014
Series ISSN: 1868-0453
Series E-ISSN: 1868-0461
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 177
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 72 illustrations in colour
Topics: Media Management, Development Economics