Challenging conventional views on mobile-telecommunications investment: Evidence from conflict zones

Agnieszka Konkel; Richard Heeks

doi:10.1080/09614520902808290

Challenging conventional views on mobile-telecommunications investment: Evidence from conflict zones

Agnieszka Konkel, Richard Heeks

Global Development Institute

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Abstract

Huge amounts are being invested in information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as mobile phones and their telecommunications infrastructure. Development agencies adopt a conventional view on the 'climate' needed to encourage such investment, believing particularly that good governance and security are required. We question this conventional view with a study of mobile telecommunications in three insecure states that score very badly in the World- wide Governance Indicators. Data are limited, but they suggest that insecurity and 'bad governance' may not be the barriers to investment that are normally supposed. Indeed, it is possible - at least for this type of digital technology - that they may encourage investment. © 2009 Oxfam GB.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	414-420
Number of pages	6
Journal	Development in Practice
Volume	19
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/09614520902808290
Publication status	Published - May 2009

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Conflict and reconstruction
Governance and public policy
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa
Technology

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