Pardee Center Publishes Paper on Africa’s Technology Futures

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University has published a new paper (No. 14) in The Pardee Papers series.

Africa’s Technology Futures: Three Scenarios was written by 2008-2009 Pardee Visiting Graduate Fellow Dirk Swart. This paper uses a scenario planning approach to explore two questions about Sub-Saharan Africa: 1) Can this region be effective at creating, owning, developing, and harnessing homegrown technology, and 2) can it successfully adapt non-African technologies into innovation cycles?

Currently the Assistant Director of IT for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University, Swart’s research focuses on trade negotiation, technology Policy, Africa policy.

This paper is part of the Africa 2060 Project, a Pardee Center program of research, publications, and symposia exploring African futures in various aspects related to development on continental and regional scales.

All Pardee Center publications are available at no cost in PDF format on the publications library page of the center’s website. Hard copies may be requested by emailing pardee@bu.edu.