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Dear AIB Member,

I trust this email finds you well. I am reaching out to you in respect of a
book project on Africa's Platforms and the Emerging Sharing Economy
and would welcome contributions from you or share same with your contacts
whom might be interested. You can access the call via this link:
https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/4045.
Details are also provided below.
Call for Chapters
Proposals Submission Deadline: June 30, 2019
Full Chapters Due: August 17, 2019
Submission Date: October 28, 2019
Introduction
African economies have been making attempts to leverage development through
technology deployments. While traditional pipe businesses have been the
dominant drivers of these economies, a new class of business model now
seems to disrupt the incumbent. The growth and adoption of the Internet as
a communication and knowledge-sharing platform has resulted in
complementary technological and transformational developments including,
but not limited to cloud computing, social media, mobile technology, and
big data. These digital transformation concepts have created new business
principles such as the on-demand economy and a new sharing economy. While
the on-demand economy has primarily grown out of industrialized economies,
especially North America, Africa has been known to communal living
characterized by sharing. Literature has shown that the introduction of
information and communication technologies (ICTs) to everyday life and
business has redefined the concept of sharing and also evolved an entirely
new spectrum of sharing - both at the individual and business settings.
Alongside this new spectrum is a new disruptive business model known as the
platform business model. Evidence suggests that Facebook, Google, Airbnb,
Amazon, Alibaba, Rent-A-Runway, etc are platform businesses that are either
two or multi-sided business models.

Platforms can be seen across several industries such as finance,
entertainment, e-commerce, logistics, agriculture, health, education,
hospitality, etc. David-West, Umukoro, and Onuoha (2018) argue that
research on platforms is quite nascent with limited literature. To this
end, little is known, much of which is not yet validated. While the subject
continues to attract interest globally and locally consequent on the
relevance and roles played by platforms in driving economies around the
world, there is need to deepen understanding of this subject to validate
global perspectives on platforms as economic drivers within the African
context. In 2014, the Centre for Global Enterprises (CGE) launched a
survey-based research project on the emerging platform economy, acquiring
regional data on platform development from China, North America, Europe,
India and sub-Saharan Africa (Evans & Gawer, 2016). From an African
perspective, David-West & Evans (2016) had earlier explored platforms as it
relates their emergence, locations, typologies, models, scope and
partnerships. Despite these efforts at understanding the African platform
landscape, not much is documented especially as it relates to platform
entrepreneurship, contribution to economic development such as digital jobs
creation, etc.
Objective
This books will provide an evidence base on platform dynamics and how they
impact Africa as a continent leveraging technology for economic
development. This is necessary given that amidst the emerging platform
economy bubble, several platforms are unable to survive in the long term as
their global peers and exit the platform ecosystem almost immediately
following a startup phase. Besides platform survival are several other
issues to contend with if Africa is to reap the benefits of the platform
economy. With the advancement and deployment of technology in governments,
issues such as data privacy and security, data protection, consumer rights,
intellectual property, and copyrights continue to receive wide attention.
The European General Data Protection Rules and other policies and
regulations will impact the design, deployment, and use of platforms for
businesses. Africa as a developing continent still has much to do as some
of these policies and frameworks are absent and may inhibit her from fully
maximizing the benefits that the platform economy offers.
Target Audience
The target audience for this book will comprise researchers, practitioners,
investors, governments, students, incubators, and accelerators. The
audience will cut across various disciplines such as finance, e-commerce,
computer science, logistics and supply chain, and information technology.
Also, the book will provide insights and support business executives
concerned with the management of expertise, knowledge, information and
organizational development in different types of work communities and
environments.
Recommended Topics
1. Definition and historical evolution of platforms and their emergence in
African markets
2. The contribution of platforms to inclusive economic development in
Africa
3. Platform entrepreneurship: start-up models, launch mechanisms, financing
and sustenance
4. Issues in the platform economy: governance, data privacy, protection,
and cybersecurity.
5. Tools, techniques, methods, and frameworks for platform research
6. Customer service/relationship management, security, risk,
trustworthiness in platforms
7. Platform competition dynamics
8. Legal, regulatory, and compliance issues in platform management
Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before June 30,
2019, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the
mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors will be
notified by July 5, 2019, about the status of their proposals and sent
chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by August
17, 2019, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for
manuscript submissions at
http://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ prior
to submission. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind
review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for
this project.

Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted
to this book publication, *Africa's Platforms and the Emerging Sharing
Economy*. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review
editorial process.

All proposals should be submitted through the eEditorial Discovery®TM
online submission manager.
Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group
Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea
Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business
Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For
additional information regarding the publisher, please visit
www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2020.
Important Dates
June 30, 2019: Proposal Submission Deadline
July 5, 2019: Notification of Acceptance
August 17, 2019: Full Chapter Submission
September 30, 2019: Review Results Returned
November 11, 2019: Final Acceptance Notification
November 25, 2019: Final Chapter Submission

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