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The Socialization of ICTs in Ethiopia: Re-Shaping Technology for Nation-Building

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  • Iginio Gagliardone

    (London School of Economics, UK)

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This paper addresses how state actors in the developing world have influenced technology adoption and favoured the diffusion of certain uses of ICTs while discouraging others. Drawing upon extensive field research and looking at the evolution of ICTs in Ethiopia, it examines how a semi-authoritarian, yet developmentally oriented regime, has actively sought to mediate the – either real or imagined – destabilising aspects of ICTs while embracing them as a tool for nation-building. A constructivist framework as developed in international relations and history of technology is employed to understand how the introduction of the new ICT framework as promoted by international organizations has been mediated both by the results of the socialization of earlier technologies in Ethiopia and by the national project pursued by the local political elite.

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  • Iginio Gagliardone, 2009. "The Socialization of ICTs in Ethiopia: Re-Shaping Technology for Nation-Building," International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD), IGI Global, vol. 1(4), pages 13-28, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jskd00:v:1:y:2009:i:4:p:13-28
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