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Africa’s Non-inclusion in Defining Fifth Generation Mobile Networks

Author : Gertjan van Stam

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Abstract

This paper identifies and unpacks a troubling phenomenon whereby Africans have historically been and currently are de-facto excluded from processes that set mobile network standards such as 3G, 4G, and (now) 5G. It combines technical and procedural observations and colonial discourses of computing, concluding that enshrined systems and processes that steer the changes in mobile technology disempower African inputs and represent a continuation of the single use of situated techniques, skills, methods and processes in the production of core mobile technologies, all conceptualised outside Africa.

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Metadata
Title
Africa’s Non-inclusion in Defining Fifth Generation Mobile Networks
Author
Gertjan van Stam
Copyright Year
2018
Book
e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-66741-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-66742-3

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66742-3_2

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