During the last quarter century, the diffusion of information and communications technology (ICT) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been shaped by noteworthy socioeconomic determinants and arguably resulted in significant socioeconomic impact. The first essay in this dissertation is an enquiry into the statistically significant socioeconomic…

This dissertation investigates how collective process-oriented documentation tools, combined with Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques, can enhance knowledge construction in hands-on, open-ended learning environments, such as makerspaces. Through a three-year design-based research, the study developed and tested a collective documentation…