Global Diffusion of the Internet: The internet in Rwanda

Leadership for the Electronic Age: Towards a Development-Oriented, Socio-Technical Ontology of Leadership

“…This work provides specificity to the claim of Chan, Kirsop & Arunachalam (2011) and Tandon et al (2013) that if local content is not available online it may lead to the misguided notion that little, if any, knowledge substance is generated in the global south, and that the needs of African countries for research are therefore met by information donation from the north. The work of Mlay et al (2013) and Czerniewicz and Wiens (2013) makes the case for organisational leadership to seek approaches to making African knowledge visible via the Internet.…”

“…The following is a schematic overview of scholarly articles in The African Journal of Information and Communication (2013), pertaining to issues in e-leadership: (2013) ICT policy process How policy networks influence outcomes Political interests and foreign intervention Metfula & Chigona (2013) Universal access and service Access to telecommunications and related services Policy and regulatory effectiveness Lewis (2013) Moral disengagement versus moral engagement Employing systematic moral disengagement strategies for dubious public sector projects A biased rationality, which is predominantly economic in nature Naidoo (2013) Discussing an information society perspective, Mlay et al (2013) direct researchers and policymakers to critically evaluate how Internet diffusion is fostered in African and other developing countries, as a basis for effective e-leadership. Czerniewicz and Wiens' (2013) contribution compels us to acknowledge why knowledge from and about Africa is invisible on the Internet, even where, as a public good, it behooves leaders to promote visibility.…”