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Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Main Messages -- Overview -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Digital Technologies: Enabling Technological Transformation for Jobs -- What are digital technologies? -- Africa's jobs and technology challenges -- Impacts of digital technology use on jobs and poverty -- Africa's large internet uptake gap -- Data and knowledge gaps for future work -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Enterprises: Creating Better Jobs for More People through Innovation -- Digital technology use by African enterprises -- COVID-19 and digital divides -- Drivers of enterprise use -- Technology policies for more and better firms -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Households: Supporting Productive Use of DTs for Inclusive Economic Impact -- Household internet use is low, uneven, but growing -- The COVID-19 paradox: Increased internet usage but widened digital divides -- Understanding constraints to household internet use -- A policy framework to transform use into inclusive impact -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 Digital and Data Infrastructure: Stimulating Greater Availability and Use through Policy and Regulatory Reforms -- Market challenges of internet connectivity: Affordability, use, and quality -- Affordability to increase use -- Availability to reduce digital divides -- Data infrastructure and regulation for affordability and willingness to use -- Looking ahead: Regional integration and climate transition -- Summary of key findings for more inclusive use -- Annex 4A Supplemental data -- Notes -- References -- Boxes -- Box 1.1 What are "good jobs"? -- Box 1.2 The World Bank's "economic transformation for jobs" framework -- Box 2.1 Rapid diffusion of website technology during COVID-19 -- Box 2.2 Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mobile app use in Africa
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Box 2.3 Public inputs to strengthen value chains in Senegal, Kenya, and Peru -- Box 2.4 A job creation program in Senegal: Effective design for technological transformation -- Box 3.1 E-commerce for economic inclusion in China's Taobao Villages -- Box 3.2 Reliable electricity and the digital economy -- Box 3.3 Smart Villages in Niger for inclusive availability and productive use -- Box 4.1 Regressive broadband pricing constrains use by the poor -- Box 4.2 High broadband prices and limited offerings constrain data use by SMEs -- Box 4.3 Creating digital institutions in situations of fragility, conflict, and violence: Transforming the sector in Somalia -- Box 4.4 Senegal's digital acceleration journey: The role of infrastructure regulatory reforms -- Box 4.5 The evolving taxation of digital services -- Box 4.6 Alternative technologies for covering rural and remote areas -- Figures -- Figure O.1 Conceptual framework for policy analysis of DTs' impacts on job and income growth -- Figure O.2 Effects of mobile internet availability on job creation and household welfare, Nigeria and Tanzania -- Figure O.3 Gap between mobile internet coverage and usage, Sub-Saharan Africa and other regions, 2010-21 -- Figure O.4 Association between firms' use of more sophisticated DTs and productivity and job growth, selected countries, 2019-21 -- Figure O.5 Association between microenterprises' use of technologies and higher productivity, sales, and jobs, 2017-18 -- Figure O.6 Smartphone and computer use, by firm size, selected countries, 2019-21 -- Figure O.7 Correlates of smartphone and computer adoption by African firms, 2017-21 -- Figure O.8 Policy routes for increasing households' inclusive uptake and productive use of DTs -- Figure O.9 Extent of competitive constraints in market structures across the digital value chain in Africa, 2021
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Figure 1.1 Projected share of the global workforce, by region, in 2025, 2050, and 2100 -- Figure 1.2 Use of selected agricultural technologies, by region, 2015 -- Figure 1.3 Conceptual framework for policy analysis of DTs' impacts on job and income growth -- Figure 1.4 Expanded conceptual framework for policy analysis of DTs' job and income impacts through the lens of digital divides -- Figure 1.5 Impacts of mobile internet availability on job creation and household welfare, Nigeria and Tanzania -- Figure 1.6 Impact of decision support tool on Nigerian rice farmers' yields and profits -- Figure 1.7 Availability of internet-enabled (3G and 4G) networks, by region, 2010-21 -- Figure 1.8 Unique 3G+ mobile internet usage, by region, 2010-21 -- Figure 1.9 Gap between mobile internet coverage and usage, Sub-Saharan Africa, 2010-21 -- Figure 1.10 Internet usage and gaps, by region -- Figure 1.11 Average mobile internet availability and usage, by technology type, Sub-Saharan Africa versus other regions, 2010 and 2021 -- Figure 1.12 Mobile internet uptake gaps, by country, Sub-Saharan Africa, 2021 -- Figure 2.1 Association of higher technological sophistication with higher enterprise productivity, selected African countries, 2019-21 -- Figure 2.2 Association between firms' use of sophisticated technologies and growth of productivity and jobs, selected African and comparator countries, 2019-21 -- Figure 2.3 Unconditional performance improvements among microenterprises using DTs relative to nonusers, selected African countries, 2017-18 -- Figure 2.4 Association between microenterprises' use of technologies and higher productivity, sales, and jobs, selected African countries, 2017-18 -- Figure 2.5 Technological sophistication of enterprises, by broad sector, selected African and comparator countries, 2019-21
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Figure 2.6 Technological sophistication of enterprises, by firm size, selected African and comparator countries, 2019-21 -- Figure 2.7 Use of DTs by enterprises, by firm size and general business function, selected African and comparator countries, 2019-21 -- Figure 2.8 Use of smartphones and computers by enterprises, by firm size, selected African and comparator countries, 2019-21 -- Figure 2.9 Use of more sophisticated DTs by enterprises, selected African and comparator countries, 2019-21 -- Figure 2.10 Average microenterprise uptake and use of DTs, by owner age and gender subgroup, selected African countries, 2017-18 -- Figure 2.11 Top Sub-Saharan African countries in digital-solution business density and total investment, 2020 -- Figure 2.12 Local and regional shares, and top regional subsectors, of digital-solution providers, Sub-Saharan Africa, 2020 -- Figure 2.13 Major hubs of regional digital-solution businesses, Sub-Saharan Africa, 2020 -- Figure B2.1.1 Growth of e-payment use in websites, Sub-Saharan African countries versus other regions, 2019-20 -- Figure 2.14 Increases in enterprise uptake, use, and investment in digital solutions after COVID-19 outbreak, by firm size, Sub-Saharan African versus comparator countries, 2020-21 -- Figure 2.15 Increases in enterprise use of and investment in DTs after COVID-19 outbreak, by firm size, selected African countries, 2020-21 -- Figure B2.2.1 Change in number of monthly average users of digital apps, selected African and comparator countries, April 2020 to March 2021 -- Figure 2.16 Effects of higher pre-COVID-19 technological readiness on enterprises' post-COVID-19 sales, by technology sophistication quintile, 2021 -- Figure 2.17 Reported barriers to enterprise use of technology, by firm size, selected African countries, 2019-21
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Figure 2.18 Correlates of smartphone and computer adoption by African firms, 2017-21 -- Figure 2.19 African enterprises' perceptions of own technology use relative to other firms within country, 2019-21 -- Figure 2.20 Correlation of worker and manager skills with use of better technologies, selected African countries, 2019-21 -- Figure 2.21 Correlation of better management capabilities and organizational practices with enterprise use of better technologies, selected African countries, 2019-21 -- Figure 2.22 Instruments to support generation and adoption of DTs for GBFs and SBFs -- Figure B2.4.1 Coordination of complementary support mechanisms tailored to specific value chains -- Figure 3.1 Internet usage, by subregion, Sub-Saharan Africa, 2000-20 -- Figure 3.2 Wireless broadband and internet coverage, usage gaps, and coverage gaps, by subregion, Sub-Saharan Africa, 2020 -- Figure 3.3 Internet usage in 10 Sub-Saharan African countries, 2008, 2012, and 2018 -- Figure 3.4 Correlation of household income with uptake of mobile services and mobile broadband internet, by income decile, selected Sub-Saharan African countries, 2017-18 -- Figure 3.5 Gender gap in mobile internet usage, by region, all low- and middle-income countries, 2017-20 -- Figure 3.6 Mobile data consumption per capita, by region, 2018 -- Figure 3.7 Correlation between internet usage and GNI per capita, Sub-Saharan Africa and the rest of the world, 2019 -- Figure 3.8 Probability of employment adjustments during COVID-19 pandemic by firms, by income group, Sub-Saharan Africa and the rest of the world, 2020/21 -- Figure 3.9 Changes in household expenditures during or after the COVID-19 outbreak, Kenya and Sierra Leone -- Figure 3.10 Association of factors with internet use, selected West African countries, 2018/19
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Figure 3.11 Correlates of internet adoption across nine Sub-Saharan African countries, 2017-18
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Begazo, Tania Digital Africa Bielefeld : World Bank Publications,c2023 ISBN 9781464817373
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