Pucciarelli, Marta and Cantoni, Lorenzo and Kalbaska, Nadzeya (2016) The digital birth of an African city. An explorative study on the city of Douala. In: 9° International Conferences on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV2016), 01.03.2016-03.03.2016, Montevideo, Uruguay.
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In this paper the digital Douala is presented. Different business categories of the economic capital of Cameroun have been tracked along the years (from 1989 up to 2013) in order to assess their emergence into the online world. Such an analysis is able to provide a full picture of the digital Douala, and of the process of its digitization from the very beginning up to recent years. Data has been collected and has been analysed and discussed taking into consideration not only the axes of time and of economic activity, but also its origin and spatial distribution, so to provide a vivid picture of a hybrid space in the making. Such a cross-time analysis is of particular relevance not only for research, but also for its policy-making implications.
| Item Type: | Article in conference proceedings or Presentation at a conference (Paper) |
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| Subjects: | Computer sciences > Computer science > Internet Computer sciences > Information systems > Databases Social studies > Development studies |
| Depositing User: | Marta Pucciarelli |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Apr 2017 06:54 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Apr 2017 06:54 |
| URI: | http://repository.supsi.ch/id/eprint/8347 |
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