Articulating and Enacting Development: Skilled Returnees in Ghana’s ICT Industry

Type Journal Article - Information Technologies and International Development
Title Articulating and Enacting Development: Skilled Returnees in Ghana’s ICT Industry
Author(s)
Volume 10
Issue 4
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2014
URL http://itidjournal.org/index.php/itid/article/view/1305
Abstract
This article examines how returnee technology entrepreneurs in Ghana articulate and enact the notion of development through their motivations for return, work choices, and practices within the ICT industry. Drawing on interview data, the article shows the ways in which these returnees integrate a transnational outlook into a localized sphere of development activities that, although ultimately privilege specific forms of knowledge and experience, still have the potential for social, cultural, and economic transfers in support of capacity building and service provision within the industry.

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