Computers in Africa: appropriate technology?
Peter Byass · ITNOW · 1987
Abstract The introduction of technology to developing countries has always been a contentious issue: is it appropriate to short-circuit steps in a nation’s industrial and technical development by importing hard-learnt experience, or should countries work up to home-grown industrial and technical revolutions in their own good time? Protagonists of the former view would argue that it is pointless repeatedly to invent the wheel; the other camp would argue that imported technology forms an unsustainable basis for on-going development.