Big Data Analytics in Developing Economies: Harnessing Insights and Creating Value

Big Data Analytics in Developing Economies: Harnessing Insights and Creating Value

Forgor Lempogo, Ezer Osei Yeboah-Boateng, William Leslie Brown-Acquaye

In a world increasingly driven by data, most developed economies are leveraging big data to achieve greater feats in various sectors of their economies. From advertisement, commerce, healthcare, and energy to defense, big data has given new insights into the huge volume of data accumulated over the past few decades that is helping reshape our knowledge and understanding of these sectors. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said about the state of big data in the developing world, where investments in IT infrastructure are dangerously low, keeping huge proportions of the population offline. This chapter discussed the challenges that exist in developing countries, which affect the smooth take-off of big data and data science as well as recommendations as to how countries and companies in the developing world can overcome these challenges to harness the benefits and opportunities presented by this …

IGI Global

2021

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