Abstract
The objective of this article is to show that, since the potential for localized diffusion of knowledge is not the same in Social Interactions Vehicles (SIV), peer effects occurring there cannot play the same role on adoption and use decisions of Internet by households. To do this, we use data from a survey of 2266 individual households carried out in 2015 in the major cities of Cameroon, where we choose Cultural Associations and Tontines (Rotating Organization of savings and credit association, ROSCA) as SIV, to which we apply a probit regression with instrumental variables. Results show that, in Cultural Associations by socio-professional categories where there is a localized diffusion of knowledge, peer effects play a positive role on the likelihood of adoption and use of Internet in Cameroon; In Tontines by these same categories, this role is uncertain. These results contrast with the one commonly known, that ROSCA's frameworks play a positive role on the adoption and use of new technologies. So, it is important for public policies that could use SIV's frameworks for ICT equipment and training policies in general and Internet in particular, convinced by the fact that their appropriation is a source of endogenous growth.
Highlights
In the analysis of the determinants of adoption and use of new technologies, localized knowledge diffusion occupies a central place
It can be noticed that such mechanisms dominate social organization in sub-Saharan Africa, where life revolves around small groups within towns and villages, depending on the sector of activity and even socio-professional categories (SPC)
The purpose of this article is to show that, since the potential for localized knowledge diffusion may not the be same for Cultural Associations and Tontines grouped by socio-professional categories (SPC), they cannot have the same impact on Adoption and use decisions of Internet by households
Summary
In the analysis of the determinants of adoption and use of new technologies, localized knowledge diffusion occupies a central place Proximity is physical, it is relational, in particular in localized knowledge diffusion concern In this respect, Social Interactions Vehicles (SIV), little evoked in socioeconomic literature seems to us more indicated to be used as framework of analysis. It can be noticed that such mechanisms dominate social organization in sub-Saharan Africa, where life revolves around small groups within towns and villages, depending on the sector of activity and even socio-professional categories (SPC). These vehicles constitute frameworks for dissemination or diffusion of formal and informal knowledge which, because of social interactions occurring there, create social multipliers of behaviors favorable or unfavorable to the adoption and use of new technologies. It is important to know, as defined above, whether SIVs favor knowledge diffusion in the same way on all kinds of technology, and how to capture the proximity effects through which this diffusion passes in order to influence adoption and use decisions of the Internet by Households in Cameroon?
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