期刊名称：The African Journal of Information and Communication
印刷版ISSN：2077-7205
电子版ISSN：2077-7213
出版年度：2016
卷号：2016
期号：18
页码：173-178
DOI：10.23962/10539/21791
语种：English
出版社：University of the Witwatersrand
摘要：It is important that these two books were published in the same year, 2016, becausetogether they reflect a more diverse set of perspectives than either one on its own,while demonstrating the common denominator of radical change relative to eachparticular country’s locality, context or development trajectory. The books illustratethat even where countries are not be at similar levels of economic development, theyall experience the digital revolution, resulting in both common and distinguishingfeatures.Written in three parts, Hanna’s major work on digital transformation attempts tomap the new digital world, where people, organisations and markets, and the animateand inanimate instances that depend on them, are engaged in radical change of thegeography, the landscape, indeed every facet of human activity. Part One on “TheBig Picture”, Part Two on “Pursuing Transformation Possibilities”, and Part Threeon “Mastering the Implementation of Digital Transformation”, each deal with differentmodes of engagement with the transition from an analogue to a digital world– thinking, designing and achieving.The authors of the 15 chapters and 14 “conversations” (as the editors have labelledthem) in this volume provide rich material for contemplation. The book is stronglygeared towards entrepreneurship and the content is suggestive of both strengths andweaknesses in the entrepreneurial landscape. As reviewers, we are not entirely convincedthat many of the ideas introduced by start-ups are at present being adoptedby Kenyans in similar proportion to the mobile money innovation M-Pesa. Ushahidi,for instance, while a Kenyan innovation, is now mostly used in other parts of theworld.
