Public policy and technological transformations in Africa : nurturing policy entrepreneurship, policy tools and citizen participation /: nurturing policy entrepreneurship, policy tools and citizen participation. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Gedion Onyango.
• Editors: Onyango, Gedion
• Contents: Chapter 1: Crafting Policy Technologies (PolicyTechs) from FinTechs, CivicTechs, GovTechs: An Introduction Part 1: TECHNOLOGIES AS PUBLIC POLICY TOOLS AND VENUESChapter 2: State Entrepreneurship in Africa: Realising digital transformation for Policy effectiveness in selected countriesChapter 3: Technological Leapfrogging and Innovation: Re-Imagining Evaluation Approaches and Practice in Africa Chapter 4: Digital Technologies, Data Commons and Rights in Africa: The Case of DigitalTransport4AfricaChapter 5: Biometric turn and the quest of public interest. Assessing the National Identification policy in Cameroon Chapter 6: Digital Participatory Budgeting and Policymaking in Botswana.- Part 2: TECHNOLOGIES NURTURING POLICY ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND PEFORMANCEChapter 7: The Digital Economy and Youth Employment in AfricaChapter 8: Digitalisation of agricultural policy and policy performance in TanzaniaChapter 9: Information Technology, The Complexity of Joint Action, and Child Protection Policy implementation in KenyaChapter 10: Mobilising and Securing Private Financial Flows from Digital Business Platforms and Curbing Tech Enabled IFFs to Finance SDGs in AfricaPart 3: TECHNOLOGIES AS SPACES FOR CITIZEN PARTICIPATIONChapter 11: Strengthening citizen agencies in policymaking through Social mediaChapter 12: Social media and public policymaking in Southern AfricaChapter 13: Technology-mediated Transparency, Accountability, and Participation in the realisation of Citizen-centred Health Interventions: Case Study of MobiSAfAIDS in Southern AfricaChapter 14: Digitalising Decentralisation Policy across regions in AfricaPart 4: EMERGING CHALLENGESChapter 15: Regulatory issues for the promotion of entrepreneurship in electronic money in the CEMAC sub-region Chapter 16: Ethical dilemmas in Public Innovations and ICT solutions during COVID-19 in Kenya.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (442 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 338.9607; Sustainable development -- Technological innovations -- Africa; Sustainable development -- Technological innovations -- Africa -- Case studies; Industry 4.0 -- Africa; Industry 4.0 -- Africa -- Case studies; Political planning -- Africa; Political planning -- Africa -- Case studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783031187049
• Related ISBNs: 9783031187032
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