Millions of users, young and mobile: Africa’s Internet market is lucrative and big ICT companies are grabbing the opportunity to get involved. Whether this will benefit users, was debated at the Global Media Forum.
”Only ensuring access to the Internet is too short-sighted. When we talk about new possibilities and capabilities through the Internet, you have to talk about media literacy, how to properly deal with content and how the content is created”.
Research is important in order to understand how Africans are using the Internet for development purposes, added a participant from Ghana. Only then can one say whether it is an empowerment or exploitation.