Book contents
- Development Disrupted
- Development Disrupted
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I
- Part II
- Part III
- 6 The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Implications for the Global North and South
- 7 Development Disrupted: Technology and the Global South
- 8 The Menace of Climate Change
- 9 The End of the Industrial Model of Development?
- Index
6 - The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Implications for the Global North and South
from Part III
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 July 2022
- Development Disrupted
- Development Disrupted
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I
- Part II
- Part III
- 6 The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Implications for the Global North and South
- 7 Development Disrupted: Technology and the Global South
- 8 The Menace of Climate Change
- 9 The End of the Industrial Model of Development?
- Index
Summary
This Part turns more directly to technology, including its role in the Global North and then how it might help re-make the Global South. Technology evolves exponentially, and we have reached a pace where it is advancing at an incredible pace. This is important for our purposes as it demonstrates that what now seems unattainable may indeed become possible, and it may happen sooner than we might think. Chapter 6 focuses on this evolution and how it is changing the environs of the Global North and South, which differs given the digital divide. This divide is very real and is a source of many discussions; yet it is not my emphasis here. Rather, I am more focused on perspectives and insights from Africans who are using technology to solve African problems, and on how technology might be a solution to problems that have defied solution. This is primarily due to the widespread adoption of cell phones which, of course, are computers. When a society’s initial encounter with computers is through cell phones, they are used in different, and especially useful ways.
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- Development DisruptedThe Global South in the Twenty-First Century, pp. 137 - 154Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022