Abstract
ABSTRACT Fast progress in information and communication technologies (ICTs) has led to the emergence of a new form of society: the information society. Within the framework of globalisation, it implies an agenda of structural adjustment for Southern countries—especially in Africa—without which they will be excluded from the world information. This is why many international and national actors in development are implementing projects to help Africa catch up in this domain. A model is built, and this article especially highlights the importance of telecommunication infrastructures, market, international trade and access costs. It will explain how this model is reduced by a positive elasticity of the use of Internet to telecommunication costs. The principal component analysis (PCA) shows that Internet takes place in an existing framework without carrying any modification in it. It concludes that Internet is not, for the time being, the long-awaited development factor in Africa, not to say that it has already generated a lot of problems there.
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