Sharing in public

Michael L. Best, Bence Kollányi, Sunil Garg · 2012

In this paper, we explore the different ways in which people collaborate and share knowledge in public Internet venues, or cybercafés, in Ghana, West Africa. Based on 150 survey interviews conducted in two different cybercafés, one urban and business-oriented and the other peri-urban and family-oriented, we find that most cybercafé customers, largely regardless of their demographic, would like to engage in collaborative work in public Internet venues and that a large percentage already are.

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