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A Model of Knowledge Economy Through ICT in East Africa International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering (IJRTE) ISSN: 2277-3878, Volume-7 Issue-3, July 2018 A Model of Knowledge Economy through ICT in East Africa Mohammed Yesuf Getu Abstract: Telecommunications services square measure the c. Investing the new ICT infrastructure to boost the foremost necessary parts within the new information society. delivery of services and to build on it as a supply of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) represent economic growth; a major challenge in terms of productivity, growth and jobs. Ethiopia is a land of cultural diversity. It is the part of tropical d. Developing and orienting individual’s skills relevant to region of Sahara and Sub-Sahara continent. Eighty percent of the knowledge Technology enabled Services (ITeS) the population in Ethiopia is living in remote and rural areas, industries and information economy. where there is a very little basic facilities are available for daily A number of terms in current use emphasize connected needs. Ethiopia is the part of African Union and situated at east however totally different aspects of the emerging world Africa and referred as horn of Africa. The AU and its Member economic order. The knowledge Society intends to be the country should quickly adopt rapidly-developing ICT so as to bridge the e-skills gap and be in a very position to form a true foremost encompassing therein economy could be a set of a knowledge-based economy. The beginning of the society. The knowledge Age is someway limiting, therein it telecommunications market to competition had the impact of a refers to a thirty year amount between the widespread use of catalyst in a various sector formerly reserved oligopolies. To computers and also the information economy, instead of enhance these developments, the Africa union decision-making rising economic order [3]. The knowledge era is regarding authorities have adopted legislation to synchronize with the character of the content, not the socioeconomic technological and current market requirements. processes by which it'll be listed. The pc revolution, and Keywords: Africa Union, Information Communication information revolution check with specific revolutionary Technologies, Knowledge Economy. transitions, instead of the top state towards that we have a tendency to area unit evolving. The knowledge Revolution I. INTRODUCTION relates with the standard terms agricultural revolution and age [4]. Information and communication technologies (ICT) The information economy and also the information aren't any longer a luxury for developing countries and that economy emphasize the content or intellectual property they square measure already making new ways that of act, that's being listed through a data market or information doing business, and delivering services. Through extending market. Electronic commerce and electronic business access and use of ICTs, the World Bank aims to stimulate emphasize the character of transactions and running a property economic process, improve service delivery, and business, severally, exploitation the web and World-Wide promote smart governance and social answerability [1]. Web [5]. Technological progress could be a substantial thrust behind The digital economy focuses on mercantilism bits in economic process. ICT infrastructure specially has attracted computer network instead of atoms in physical house. The abundant investment, and generated vital fiscal revenues and network economy stresses that companies can work employment opportunities in developing countries. The conjointly in webs or as a part of business ecosystems amount of mobile phone subscriptions in developing instead of as complete units. Social networking refers to the countries has inflated from two hundred million in 2000 to method of collaboration on large, international scales. The 3.7 billion in 2010, and also the range of net users has net economy focuses on the character of markets that square grown up over tenfold [1]. With net penetration at a turning measure enabled by the net [6, 7]. Knowledge services and purpose as well as within the least connected region, Africa, information worth place content into an economic context. and with seventy percent of the population in developing Knowledge services integrates information management, countries having access to fasten or mobile phone services, inside information organization, that trades in a very ICT networks currently represent a far-reaching service information market, so as for people to receive a lot of delivery and national participation platform [2]. ICTs are information, surveillance is employed. This relates to the often used as a vehicle to extend responsibility, and might employment of Drones as a tool so as to collect knowledge remodel and extend the reach of service delivery to the on different people. underserved in innovative, fast, and efficient manner. Key Although apparently similar, every term conveys quite remaining challenges and opportunities for developing nuances or slightly completely different views of constant countries include: factor. Every term represents one attribute of the likely a. Rising Affordability so as to succeed in the tierce of the nature of economic activity within the rising post-industrial population of the poorest countries WHO presently society as an alternative, the new economic order can live on the far side the ICT networks; incorporate all of the on top of and different attributes that b. Widening Access to additional advanced ICT services have not nevertheless totally love broadband for high-speed internet; emerged. Revised Version Manuscript Received on 18 June, 2018. Mohammed Yesuf Getu, Department of Computer Science, Samara University, Samara, Ethiopia , E-mail: [email protected] Published By: Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering Retrieval Number: C1755077318 5 & Sciences Publication Pvt. Ltd. A Model of Knowledge Economy through ICT in East Africa One of the central paradoxes of the knowledge society is scientifically valid benchmarks and results, that can live the that it makes information simply duplicable, resulting in a effectiveness of current comes. This field has additionally spread of freedom/control issues relating to property. made associate informal community of technical and Basically, business and capital, whose place becomes that of scientific discipline researchers that rose out of the annual manufacturing and mercantilism data and data, looks to need ICT4D conferences. management over this new resource in order that it will The motor of this incessant force of artistic destruction is effectively be managed and oversubscribed because the technological amendment. Digital data and Communication basis of the information economy [8]. However, such Technologies fulfill those needs and therefore represent a management will sway be each technically and socially general purpose technology which will rework a whole problematic. Technically as a result of copy protection is economy, resulting in a contemporary, and additional commonly simply circumvented and socially rejected as a developed variety of socio-economic and political result of the users and voters of the knowledge society will organization usually said because the post-industrial society, prove to be unwilling to just accept such absolute data society, digital age, and network society, among others commodification of the facts and knowledge that compose [9],[10], and [11]. The declared goal of ICT-for- their atmosphere. development is to form use of this current transformation by actively victimization the enabling technology to enhance II. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION the living conditions of societies and segments of society. TECHNOLOGIES FOR DEVELOPMENT (ICT4D) As in previous social transformations of this kind (industrial The notion of the knowledge-based economy (KbE) has revolution, etc.), the ensuing dynamic is associate degree featured conspicuously in industrial and policy discourse interaction between associate degree enabling technology, over the past few years. In part, this is linked to the EC's normative guiding policies and methods, and also the efforts to stress the increasing role of analysis and ensuing social transformation. knowledge based inputs for the longer term aggressiveness ICT for Development policies and comes are aimed of European business. Many national and Europe industrial toward the promotion of normatively desired outcomes of and policy initiatives have emphasized the potential of the this transformation, the reduction of negative effects, and digital media industries as vital new sources of jobs and also the removal of ultimate bottlenecks. In essence, there wealth creation into the first twenty first century are two varieties of interventions: regeneration (incentives, Information and Communication Technologies for projects, financing, subsidies, etc. that accentuate existing Development (ICT4D) refers to the employment of opportunities); and feedback (regulation and legislation, knowledge and Communication Technologies (ICTs) within etc.) that limit and tame negative developments. the fields of socioeconomic development, international development and human rights. The theory behind this is III. IMPACT OF ICT4D often that a lot of and higher data and communication 3.1. ICT for Education in Ethiopia furthers the development of a society. ICT for Education (ICT4E) may be a set of the ICT4D Aside from its reliance on technology, ICT4D conjointly thrust. Globalization and technological amendment
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