Africa’s information revolution: technical regimes and production networks in South Africa and Tanzania
本书通过分析南非和坦桑尼亚中小企业（旅游业和木材业）的信息技术使用案例，批判了技术决定论和ICT4D（信息通信技术促进发展）的供应侧干预思路，为理解非洲信息技术扩散提供了反主流视角。
James Murphy and Pádraig Carmody’s new book, ‘Africa’s Information Revolution: Technical Regimes and Production Networks in South Africa and Tanzania’ explores the diffusion of information and communications technologies (ICTs) taking place throughout Africa. It does this through an analysis of the expectations following the rapid take-up of ICTs, and through exploring cases of ICT use in small and medium enterprises in two countries (the tourism and wood sectors in South Africa and Tanzania). This work makes a welcome antidote to the often uncritical discussion on ICTs and Africa to emerge from the ICT industry, technology advocates and donors, sometimes referred to as ICT for Development (ICT4D). In the early chapters, the authors explore how ICT4D has particularly focused on supply-side interventions: local projects that support ICTs for more marginal groups. The book offers a sustained critique of these approaches that frequently fold into technology determinism where development is associated with little more than ICT-driven modernization.