ICT pathways to poverty reduction : empirical evidence from East and Southern Africa / edited by Edith Ofwona Adera, Timothy M. Waema, Julian May, Ophelia Mascarenhas and Kathleen Diga.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The ICT/poverty nexus in Africa Julian May, Timothy M. Waema, and Elise Bjåstad -- Information and communication technologies as a pathway from poverty : evidence from East Africa Julian May, Vaughan Dutton, and Louis Munyakazi -- Political economy of ICTs and their effect on poverty Obadia Okinda Miroro and Edith Ofwona Adera -- Livelihood and ICTs in East Africa Aileen Agüero, Roxana Barrantes, and Timothy M. Waema -- Access and use of ICT and its contribution to poverty reduction in Kenya Timothy M. Waema and Obadia Okinda Miroro -- Impact of enhanced access to ICTs on small and microenterprises in Tanzania Ophelia Mascarenhas -- Mobile phones and the food price crisis in Rwanda Kathleen Diga, Claude Bizimana, Felix Korbla Akorli, and François Bar -- The complexities of establishing causality between an ICT intervention and changes in quality of life : CLIQ in South Africa Heidi Attwood, Kathleen Diga, and Julian May -- Internet gone mobile in Namibia Christoph Stork and Enrico Calandro.