How Tech Hubs are Helping to Drive Economic Growth in Africa

Digital technologies have spread rapidly. Digital dividends—the broader development benefits from using these technologies—have not. Digital technologies to benefit everyone everywhere requires improving the “analog” complements to digital investments—by strengthening regulations that ensure comp...

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Main Authors:	Kelly, Tim, Firestone, Rachel
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:	ICT tech hubs economic growth innovation digital investment internet skills industry-academic collaboration
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23645

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spelling	okr-10986-236452021-05-25T10:54:40Z How Tech Hubs are Helping to Drive Economic Growth in Africa Kelly, Tim Firestone, Rachel ICT tech hubs economic growth innovation digital investment internet skills industry-academic collaboration Digital technologies have spread rapidly. Digital dividends—the broader development benefits from using these technologies—have not. Digital technologies to benefit everyone everywhere requires improving the “analog” complements to digital investments—by strengthening regulations that ensure competition among businesses, by adapting workers’ skills to the demands of the new economy, and by ensuring that institutions are accountable. Inclusion, efficiency, innovation are the main mechanisms for the internet to promote development. How can these mechanisms be leveraged to promote Africa’s development? The paper tracks some 117 Tech Hubs across Africa, many of which have been created in the last few years. The paper looks at the patterns of origin by which Tech Hubs are created, why they have a high failure rate, and what makes for success. 2016-01-14T17:36:54Z 2016-01-14T17:36:54Z 2016-01 Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23645 en_US WDR 2016 Background Paper; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Working Paper Publications & Research Africa
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description	Digital technologies have spread rapidly. Digital dividends—the broader development benefits from using these technologies—have not. Digital technologies to benefit everyone everywhere requires improving the “analog” complements to digital investments—by strengthening regulations that ensure competition among businesses, by adapting workers’ skills to the demands of the new economy, and by ensuring that institutions are accountable. Inclusion, efficiency, innovation are the main mechanisms for the internet to promote development. How can these mechanisms be leveraged to promote Africa’s development? The paper tracks some 117 Tech Hubs across Africa, many of which have been created in the last few years. The paper looks at the patterns of origin by which Tech Hubs are created, why they have a high failure rate, and what makes for success.
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author	Kelly, Tim Firestone, Rachel
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title	How Tech Hubs are Helping to Drive Economic Growth in Africa
title_short	How Tech Hubs are Helping to Drive Economic Growth in Africa
title_full	How Tech Hubs are Helping to Drive Economic Growth in Africa
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title_full_unstemmed	How Tech Hubs are Helping to Drive Economic Growth in Africa
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How Tech Hubs are Helping to Drive Economic Growth in Africa

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