• DocumentCode
    69219
  • Title

    Nii Quaynor: Bringing the Internet to Africa

  • Author

    Severance, Charles

  • Author_Institution
    University of Michigan
  • Volume
    47
  • Issue
    9
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    Sept. 2014
  • Firstpage
    7
  • Lastpage
    9
  • Abstract
    The story of bringing the Internet to Africa is one of cooperation and collaboration for the common good. The first Web extra at http://youtu.be/5LXvSs_zugk is a video interview in which author Charles Severance speaks with Nii Quaynor about how the story of bringing the Internet to Africa is one of cooperation and collaboration for the common good. The second Web extra at http://youtu.be/lnq6gsjrnWA is an audio recording of author Charles Severance reading his Computing Conversations column, in which he discusses his interview with Nii Quaynor about how the story of bringing the Internet to Africa is one of cooperation and collaboration for the common good.
  • Keywords
    Africa; Cultural difference; Digital communication; History; Internet; Sociology; Computing Conversations; Nii Quaynor; digital divide; history of computing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computer
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9162
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MC.2014.259
  • Filename
    6898710