The Digital Birth of an African City

Autor: Nadzeya Kalbaska, Lorenzo Cantoni, Marta Pucciarelli
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: ICEGOV
DOI: 10.1145/2910019.2910086
Popis: In this paper the digital Douala is presented. Different business categories of the economic capital of Cameroun have been tracked along the years (from 1989 up to 2013) in order to assess their emergence into the online world. Such an analysis is able to provide a full picture of the digital Douala, and of the process of its digitization from the very beginning up to recent years. Data has been collected and has been analysed and discussed taking into consideration not only the axes of time and of economic activity, but also its origin and spatial distribution, so to provide a vivid picture of a hybrid space in the making. Such a cross-time analysis is of particular relevance not only for research, but also for its policy-making implications.
Databáze: OpenAIRE