Fw: Book Launch: Russell Southwood's "Africa 2.0 - Inside a continent's communications revolution"

[Tucker, Bill [btucker@sun.ac.za]]

fyi. hope to see you there 😄

bill

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From: Zara Schroeder <zschr...@researchictafrica.net>
Sent: Thursday, 27 October 2022 10:44

What did Liberalization and Privatization do for Africa? And what's the unfinished agenda?

                       

 

Liberalization lit the fuse for the communications revolution that has happened over the last three decades. Privatization has proved far more problematic and has sometimes led to the very problems it was meant to solve. Balancing Act’s Russell Southwood, the author of Africa 2.0 – Inside a Continent’s Communications Revolution (Manchester University Press) – discusses with Alison Gillwald, Executive Director, Research ICT Africa. Adjunct Professor at the University of Cape Town what went right and what went wrong over those three decades. 

 

They will also discuss whether the consolidation of Africa’s mobile operators is lowering the competition levels liberalization was designed to create, the tendency towards de facto monopolies in areas like mobile money and social media and the policy implications of the barriers to further liberalization and privatization across the continent.

 

Although the digital divide has been reduced over the last three decades, it is very clear that there is an unfinished agenda. The speakers will debate what still needs to be done and how it might be achieved.

Kind regards,

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