Broadband as a Video Platform : Strategies for Africa

edited by Judith O'Neill, Eli M. Noam, Darcy Gerbarg

Preface -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Media Entertainment as Development Strategy -- 3 Let Them Eat Movies: (How) Will Next Generation Broadband Diffuse Through Africa? -- 4 The State of Broadband in Africa: What's here and What's coming? -- 5 The Cost of Deploying a Successful Video Broadband Business in Africa and the Cost of Not Deploying -- 6 Implications of Broadband Video on National and International Media Systems -- 7 What to Expect from Platforms and Applications -- 8 Technology Trends on Connect Africa -- 9 The Impact of Policy on the Performance of the ICT Sector -- 10 Information Technologies for Rural Development in Africa -- 11 The Economic Impact of Telecommunications in Senegal -- 12 Africa Leapfrogs into the World Economy.

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	O'Neill, Judith
Other Persons:	Noam, Eli M. (ed.) ; Gerbarg, Darcy (ed.)
Publisher:	Cham : Springer International Publishing
Subject:	Afrika \| Africa \| Breitbandkommunikation \| Broadband communications \| Digitale Plattform \| Digital platform
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Extent:	Online-Ressource (XVI, 177 p. 83 illus., 72 illus. in color, online resource)
Series:	The Economics of Information, Communication, and Entertainment, The Impacts of Digital Technology in the 21st Century SpringerLink / Bücher
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record PrefaceForeword -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Media Entertainment as Development Strategy -- 3 Let Them Eat Movies: (How) Will Next Generation Broadband Diffuse Through Africa? -- 4 The State of Broadband in Africa: What's here and What's coming? -- 5 The Cost of Deploying a Successful Video Broadband Business in Africa and the Cost of Not Deploying -- 6 Implications of Broadband Video on National and International Media Systems -- 7 What to Expect from Platforms and Applications -- 8 Technology Trends on Connect Africa -- 9 The Impact of Policy on the Performance of the ICT Sector -- 10 Information Technologies for Rural Development in Africa -- 11 The Economic Impact of Telecommunications in Senegal -- 12 Africa Leapfrogs into the World Economy.
ISBN:	978-3-319-03617-5 ; 978-3-319-03616-8
Other identifiers:	10.1007/978-3-319-03617-5 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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