The Impact of ICTs on Innovative Sustainable Development in East and Southern Africa

Abstract

The major problem of under-development in Africa characterised by the huge challenge to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is on knowledge empowerment supported by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Information has become a strategic resource, a commodity and foundation of every activity. The emergence and convergence of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has remained at the centre of global socio-economic transformations. If implemented properly and carefully, these technologies could reduce or eliminate the imbalance between rich and poor, and powerful and marginalized.