Mobile internet adoption in West Africa

Abstract

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Smallholder farmers’ perception and adoption of digital agricultural technologies: An empirical evidence from Vietnam

“…This implies that agricultural production and marketing activities that is dealt with these digital technologies work well and fulfil their requirements. Although a number of studies (Ammann et al, 2022; Granguillhome Ochoa et al, 2022; Kendall et al, 2022; Kernecker et al, 2020) have looked at farmers’ perception of digital technologies in agriculture in both developing and developed economies, the effectiveness of the internet and connectivity/wireless, mobile applications and digital platforms in dealing with farming activities as perceived by smallholder farmers is rarely discussed. It became apparent that the adoption of the internet and connectivity/wireless, mobile applications and digital platforms was negatively related with smallholder farmers’ age and this relationship was statistically significant.…”

“…This implies that agricultural production and marketing activities that is dealt with these digital technologies work well and fulfil their requirements. Although a number of studies (Ammann et al, 2022;Granguillhome Ochoa et al, 2022;Kendall et al, 2022;Kernecker et al, 2020) have looked at farmers' perception of digital technologies in agriculture in both developing and developed economies, the effectiveness of the internet and connectivity/wireless, mobile applications and digital platforms in dealing with Interestingly, it has been found that the adoption of the internet and connectivity/wireless, mobile applications and digital platforms was positively and significantly linked with scientist interactions, which means that smallholder farmers who had interactions with scientists (experts/researchers/lecturers in agronomy, economics and engineering) were in a better position to adopt the digital technologies than those who did not interact with these people. This could be attributed to the fact that smallholder farmers who often interact with scientists may receive more information about which digital technologies are most appropriate to smallholders' farms as well as knowledge/ support in applying the digital technologies on their farms, and this may affect their decision regarding the adoption of the digital technologies.…”

Digital divides among microenterprises: Evidence from sub‐Saharan Africa

“…Thus, a lack of basic literacy is a barrier to digital inclusion, as most services and devices are designed for people who can read and write. Furthermore, knowledge of English or French is positively associated with greater digital inclusion, which can be explained by the greater availability of internet content in these languages (Ochoa et al, 2022;Pénard et al, 2012Pénard et al, , 2015.…”

“…More generally, because literacy and other digital skills are necessary to fully use and benefit from digital technologies, educational attainment appears to be a key determinant of digital inequalities (Birba & Diagne, 2012;Deen-Swarray, 2016;Forenbacher et al, 2019;Hasbi & Dubus, 2020;Ochoa et al, 2022;Pénard et al, 2012Pénard et al, , 2015.…”

Digital Modernity

“…It is also a factor between countries, as poorer nations lack infrastructure, skills and scale to gather much data, and the institutional resources to regulate it and build trust (World Bank, 2021). For instance, sub-Saharan African nations' welfare services struggled to identify their poorest citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic because they simply had not been able to afford effective data collection and retrieval prior to the emergency (Gelb and Mukherjee, 2020;Rogger and Somani, 2018), and Internet penetration levels were some of the lowest in the world (Granguillhome Ochoa et al, 2022). The government of…”