Information and Communication Technologies in the Face of Underdevelopment in Africa. Hope or Despair?

Abstract

Despite the numerous problems that hamper its underdevelopment, Africa is not escaping a rupture characterized by the appropriation of information and the technologies that convey it, in this case ICT. These tools regularly shape our way of life, modify the way we work, and structure human activities. Certainly, by their intrinsic characteristics, information and communication technologies do not easily lend themselves to direct measurements of performance and production, unlike other sectors of activity. ICTs are not appropriate for such analyzes of direct correlation with underdevelopment towards azimuth development but in an African context, they are more dedicated to purposes beyond societal development. The latter impose a lifestyle on us without necessarily wanting it wherever we appear. Certain primary needs are revised downwards in the face of the different prices to pay, because every citizen wants to be attached to their new era tools carrying hopes or despair to take up a challenge on the socio-cultural underdevelopment of the black continent .