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La pauvreté numérique en Afrique Subsaharienne : Analyse a partir de données micro

2009-10-07 , Gueye, Alioune , Diagne, Abdoulaye , Mohamed, Omar Abdoulkader

Digital poverty, poverty relating to the level of access of the households to Information and Communication Technologies, comes to enrich the literature developed around the multidimensional poverty. The digital poverty of the households is seen as the lack of access to information and the communication. This work draws up a profile of multidimensional poverty of the access to the ICT from data collected in 17 countries African countries. The results show that the access to the traditional ICT is relatively high (75% of the households have access to the radio and 51% have a television set) while new technologies are less accessible for the great majority from the surveyed households (6% of the households have a computer and less than 2% have connection Internet to residence). The analysis of the determinants of digital poverty, reveals that the fact of lying in an urban area, a high level of the monthly expenditure, the access to electricity and a reduced number of the members of the household decrease the probability of being poor numerically. The university level and the statute of employee of the person of reference reduce the chances of the households to be poor numerically. Lastly, a multilevel modeling shows that the poorest households numerically result from the countries whose rates of elimination of illiteracy, Gross domestic product and Indicator of Development of Information and Communication Technologies (IDI) are weak.

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Les déterminants de l’adoption de l’internet en Afrique : cas de 17 pays

2009-10-07 , Birba, Ousmane , Diagne, Abdoulaye , Maazou, Ibrahim

What are the factors that favor or slow down the use of the Internet in Africa? In order to answer this question, research has multiplied over the past years. This study proposes a two level hierarchical modeling of the explanatory factors of the Internet adoption in Africa. The data used come from the E-access and Usage survey realized by the network Research ITC in Africa (RIA) in 2007; this type of survey is as the same method of collection were simultaneously used in 17 African countries. The results of the model show the significant role of the urbanization in the explanation of the individual decisions of adoption of the Internet, thanks to a greater development of Internet infrastructures in urban areas. Also, more the rate of completion of the primary education is high in a country; more the people who live there use the Internet. They also reveal that an individual will have a larger probability to use the Internet if its household has a computer or Internet connection. Moreover, the individual characteristics (the sex, the age, the level of education, and the belonging to a social network) are the underlying factors of the Internet adoption. Indeed, a man is more likely to use the Internet than a woman; this chance is larger if he is young (16 to 30 years) or if he reached at least the secondary education level or if he is member of a social network.

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L’adoption des technologies de l’information et de la et de la communication (TIC) par les ménages africains au sud du Sahara: analyse comparative à partir des micros données

2009-10-07 , Diagne, Abdoulaye , Ly, Mamadou Al Hadji

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