The Utilisation of Mobile Technologies in Higher Education: Lifebuoy or Constriction?

Eybers, Sunet; Giannakopoulos, Apostolos

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-25684-9_22

Communications in Computer and Information Science

2015

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-25684-9_22

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The Utilisation of Mobile Technologies in Higher Education: Lifebuoy or Constriction?

Sunet Eybers

Apostolos Giannakopoulos

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“…Technologies have dramatically transformed young people's relationships with one another, their families and communities. In South Africa, 75% of youth even in rural areas has access to a mobile phone (Eyebers and Giannakopoulos 2015). This not only yields opportunities for access to different types of information but also to create a faceless connected force of youth.…”

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The Faceless Mobile Youth of Africa Drive Change

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2018

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One of the major challenges facing most developing countries such as South Africa today is how to take full and smart advantage of quite spectacular and far-reaching advances in science and technology not only in promoting national economic development but particularly addressing the needs of poor and marginalised sections of society. Whilst technology access in the pre-digital era has always been a major barrier to economic and social development in developing countries, this is no longer an absolute barrier for at least three reasons: first, the proliferation of distributive and open technologies, and limits to the power of proprietary frameworks; second, the increasingly lower delivery cost of new technologies; and third, the emergence of multiple sources of technology innovation and development in civil society.Despite this, it is not altogether clear that South Africa is sufficiently exploiting the multiplier effects of new technology opportunities across the traditional rural and urban, and black and white social barriers, especially insofar as real empowerment of the poor and marginalised are concerned. There is still, in some respects a growing, technological divide in our country, and the dividends of our technological age are rarely passed on equally to different social classes, ethnic groups and geographic communities in South Africa. The problem of a continued technological gap may be partly to do with the economics of 'access' by poor communities. However, there also seems to be major problems with the absence or weakness of requisite conditions-social, institutional and political-necessary for its effective social appropriation.

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