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| Title: | NEPAD and the Digital Divide: The Case of Botswana and the Silent Marginalised Minorities |
| Author: | Mphinyane, Sethunya Tshepho |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Periodical: | Africa Development: A Quarterly Journal of CODESRIA (ISSN 0850-3907) |
| Volume: | 30 |
| Issue: | 1-2 |
| Pages: | 152-162 |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | biblio. refs. |
| Geographic terms: | Botswana Southern Africa Africa |
| Subjects: | minority groups development international economic relations information technology Development and Technology Economics and Trade Inter-African Relations science and technology Digital divide New Partnership for Africa's Development Marginality, Social |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/24484606 |
| Abstract: | This paper addresses the question of whether the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) through its e-Africa Commission and its Science and Technology agenda for ICT provides for new possibilities for Africa's marginalized indigenous minorities to engage meaningfully with development processes. It questions whether NEPAD recognises the power of ICT beyond providing access to information, particularly its potential as a resource for the oppressed to wage their battles for self-determination, and whether it is willing to go beyond questions of access, and address the politics of power and the Internet and other ICT. Is there likelihood in Africa for ICTs to become new sites of resistance and oppression? The paper suggests that there is already evidence that for marginalized ethnic minorities such as the Basarwa, the San people of Botswana, this new forum and the Internet in particular will be yet another tool to mute their voices. The situation in Botswana, in which ICT allowed Survival International and the Botswana government to speak over the heads of Basarwa, seems to show that African ethnic minorities will become further marginalized in the flow of information. Bibliogr., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract, edited] |
