Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Konté, Almamy
Author-Email: almamy.konte@recherche.gouv.sn
Author-Workplace-Name: Ministry of Higher Education, Universities, Regional
	 University Centres and Scientific Research, and Department of Physics,
	 Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal
Author-Name: Ndong, Mariama 
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Sociology, Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis
	 University Saint-Louis, Senegal
Title: The informal ICT sector and innovation processes in Senegal
Abstract: This paper investigates the informal information and communication
	 technology (ICT) sector in Senegal with a view to developing indicators
	 that could be used to improve the understanding of the innovation
	 process. Three approaches are used to gather the information needed for
	 the analysis: a review of literature; a questionnaire to collect data;
	 and, a life story to provide context to the research. The analysis
	 provides examples of innovation in the informal ICT sector and examines
	 the relationship of social factors to these examples. As the informal
	 sector dominates the Senegalese economy, the paper contributes to the
	 understanding of innovation driven economic growth in that sector, and
	 to the factors linked to transition of economic activity from one sector
	 to another. 
Classification-JEL: O31, O33
Keywords: Informal economy, innovation indicators, information and communication
	 technologies, ICT, social development, economic development
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2012
Number: 2012-009
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2012/wp2012-009.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2012009