Africa-Europe Cooperation and Digital Transformation

Herausgegeben:Daniels, Chux; Erforth, Benedikt; Teevan, Chloe

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Africa-Europe Cooperation and Digital Transformation explores the opportunities and challenges for cooperation between Africa and Europe in the digital sphere.

Digitalisation and digital technologies are not only essential for building competitive and dynamic economies; they transform societies, pose immense challenges for policymakers, and increasingly play a pivotal role in global power relations. Digital transformations have had catalytic effects on African and European governance, economies, and societies, and will continue to do so. The COVID-19 pandemic has already accelerated the penetration of digital tools all over the globe and is likely to be perceived as a critical juncture in how and to what purpose the world accepts and uses new and emerging technologies. This book offers a holistic analysis of how Africa and Europe can manage and harness digital transformation as partners in a globalised world. The authors shed light on issues ranging from economic growth, youth employment, and gender, to regulatory frameworks, business environments, entrepreneurship, and interest-driven power politics. They add much-needed perspectives to the debates that shape the two continents' digital transformation and innovation environments.

This book will interest practitioners working in the areas of innovation, digital technologies, and digital entrepreneurship, as well as students and scholars of international relations. It will also be relevant for policymakers, regulators, decision-makers, and leaders in Africa and Europe.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Produktdetails

• Innovations in International Affairs
• Verlag: Multiple Funders / Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9781032228235
• ISBN-10: 1032228237
• Artikelnr.: 65931900

Autorenporträt

Chux Daniels is Research Fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) and Director of the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC) Africa Hub, both at the University of Sussex Business School, UK. He is also a Senior Fellow at the African Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET), Ghana, and visiting faculty at the Universities of Pretoria and Johannesburg, South Africa. Benedikt Erforth is Senior Researcher in the Programme Transnational- and International Cooperation at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), where he co-leads the "Megatrends Afrika" project. Chloe Teevan is Head of Digital Economy and Governance at the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM), the Netherlands. She is also a non-resident scholar with the North Africa and Sahel programme at the Middle East Institute in Washington DC, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Vera Songwe Foreword by Jutta Urpilainen 1 Digitalisation for Transformation: New Frontiers for Africa-Europe Cooperation 2 The EU-AU Digital Partnership: Between Digital Geopolitics and Digital Sovereignty 3 The Spread of Chinese Surveillance Tools in Africa: A Focus on Ethiopia and Kenya 4 The Artificial Intelligence - Biotech Revolution in Africa 5 African Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Need to Digitally Transform to Benefit from the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) 6 Digitalisation, Globalisation, and COVID-19: Unpacking the Opportunities for African Labour Markets 7 Digitalise to Industrialise: Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and the Africa-Europe Partnership 8 Digital Water: An Analysis of EU and the US Digital Water Initiatives in Africa 9 Digitalisation and Revenue Mobilisation in Ghana: The Role of Evidence-Based Stakeholder Engagements 10 Where Privacy Meets Politics: EU-Kenya Cooperation in Data Protection 11 Digitalisation in Science and Technology Policy: Engagement, Alignment, and Misalignment Between the European Union and South African Data Protection and Privacy Frameworks 12 Putting People at the Centre of Digital Policy: Mechanisms for Citizen Engagement in Nigeria 13 Digital Skills in Africa: Prospects for AU-EU Collaboration 14 Digitalisation and Transformative Learning for Sustainable Futures in Rural Africa: Leaving No One Behind 15 Feminist Digital Development: The Missing Jigsaw Piece in the European Union's Strategic Partnership with Africa 16 Fostering Prosperity for African Female Entrepreneurs: Opportunities for AU-EU Cooperation in Digital Entrepreneurship Networks

Rezensionen

"This book provides expert insights and thoughtful perspectives that are immensely useful for policymakers and stakeholders in understanding innovation and digital opportunities for Africa-Europe cooperation. This is must for your reading list."

Rob Floyd, Director for Innovation and Digital Policy at the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), Ghana

"It is encouraging to see that the authors of this book have made an important contribution to guide the discourse on digital development and North-South collaboration towards a much-needed holistic awareness of digital challenges and opportunities, while addressing many of the SDGs."

Dimo Calovski, Economic Affairs Officer at the UNCTAD, Switzerland

"Through the diversity of perspectives represented throughout, this edited volume offers a clear diagnosis of the continental considerations regarding global digital transformation. In doing so, the contributors describe the dynamic nature of IR and call for a restoration of African leadership in North-South collaboration. The book will be useful not only to specialists, but also to policy-makers and to those working within African studies and researching the ways in which African agency creates and transforms the world order."

Annette Rolfe, University of Portsmouth, UK, writing in International Affairs 100: 3, pp. 1346-47, 2024