Patience Akpan-Obong

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Ette, Mercy & Akpan-Obong, Patience (2022). Negotiating Access and Privilege: Politics of Female Participation and Representation in Nigeria. Journal of Asian and African Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F00219096221084253

Alozie, Nicholas; Thomas, Kathy; & Akpan-Obong, Patience (2017). Global liberalization on homosexuality: Explaining the African Gap. The Social Science Journal. Volume 54, Issue 2, June 2017, pp. 120–131.

Alozie, Nicholas, Kathy Thomas, & Akpan-Obong, Patience (2016). Mass Support for Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Quest for Sustainable Development. International Journal of Economic Development. Volume 10, Number 1, pp. 32-66.

Alozie, Nicholas and Akpan-Obong, Patience (2016). The Digital Gender Divide: Confronting Obstacles to Women’s Development in Africa. Development Policy Review. Volume 35, Issue 2, pp. 137–160.

Tabuwa, M. E., Muluh, H.Z., Tanjong, E., Akpan-Obong, Patience. et al (2013). Gendering Technologies: Women in Cameroon’s Pink-Collar ICT Work. International Journal of Management & Information Systems, Vol. 17 (4), 213-222

Alozie, Nicholas O., Patience Akpan-Obong, & William A. Foster (2011). Sizing Up Information and Communication Technologies as Agents of Political Development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Telecommunications Policy, Vol. 35, No. 8: 752-763.

Akpan-Obong, Patience (2010). Unintended Outcomes in Information and Communication Technology Adoption: A Micro-level Analysis of Usage in Context. Journal of Asian and African Studies, Vol. 45, No. 2: 181-195.

Akpan-Obong, Patience, Carlos A. Thomas, Kibily D. Samake, Moses Niwe, & Victor W. Mbarika (2009). An African Pioneer Comes of Age: Evolution of Information and Communication Technologies in Uganda. Journal of Information, Information Technology, and Organizations, Vol. 4: 147-171.

Akpan-Obong, Patience & Mary Jane Parmentier (2009). "Linkages and Connections: A Framework for Research in Information and Communication Technologies, Regional Integration and Development." Review of Policy Research, Vol. 26, No. 3: 289-309.

Akpan-Obong, Patience (2008). “Discourse as Practice in Nigeria's IT industry – A research in progress.” Information Technology for Development, Vol. 14, No. 4: 328-332.

Akpan-Obong, Patience (2003). “Basic-needs to globalization: Are ICTs the missing link?” Information Technology for Development, Vol. 10, No. 23: 261-274. 

Akpan, Patience (2000). “Africa in the age of a global network society: The challenges ahead.” African Studies Quarterly, Vol. 4, No.1: 1-16.

Books

Akpan-Obong, Patience (2017). Six Years of E-governance in Edo State, Nigeria: Study of the Edo State Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA), 2009-2015. Ogun State, Nigeria: Covenant University Press. Forthcoming. 109 pages. ISBN-978-978-954-500-1

Akpan-Obong, Patience; Ayo, Charles K., & Adebiyi, Ayodele, editors (2017). Issues and Concepts of E-governance in Nigeria – A Reader. Ogun State, Nigeria: Covenant University Press. Forthcoming. 305 pages. ISBN: 978-978-954-501-8

Akpan-Obong, Patience & Alozie, Nicholas O. (2016). Information Technologies in the Nigerian Public Sector: E-Governance Practice in Federal Government Institutions in Abuja. Ogun State, Nigeria: Covenant University Press. Forthcoming. 180 pages. ISBN: 978-978-955-072-2

Akpan-Obong, Patience (2013). Letters to Nigeria: Journal of an African Woman in America. Charleston, S.C.: CreateSpace. 330 pages. ISBN: 978-1482608700

Akpan-Obong, Patience (2009). Information and Communication Technologies in Nigeria: Prospects and Challenges for Development. New York: Peter D. Lang Publishing, Inc. 225 pages. 978-1433103100

Peer-Reviewed Chapters in Edited Volumes

Akpan-Obong, Patience (2022). Invisible but Ubiquitous: Leveraging ICTs for Development in Gendered Systems of Exclusion -- Nigeria and Cameroon in Handbook of Gender and Technology: Environment, Identity, and Individual Factors. Trauth, Eileen & Quesenberry, Jeria (Eds.) Edward Elgar Publishing, International Handbooks on Gender Series. Accepted and Forthcoming.

Akpan-Obong, Patience Idaraesit & Alozie, Nicholas O. (2017). ICTs and Administrative Processes as Measure of Willingness to Integrate Technology in Nigeria’s Electoral Practices in Akpan-Obong, Patience; Ayo, Charles K.; & Adebiyi, Ayodele, editors (2017). Issues and Concepts of E-governance in Nigeria – A Reader. Ogun State, Nigeria: Covenant University Press.

Akpan-Obong, Patience & Parmentier, Mary Jane (2013).  Hash Tags, Status Updates and Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of Social Networking in Political Mobilization in Tu, Xin & White Ann Marie, Lu, Naiji, eds., Social Networking: Recent Trends, Emerging Issues and Future Outlook. New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Akpan-Obong, Patience & Parmentier, Mary Jane (2010). Coordination, Convergence or Contradictions: Information and Communication Technologies for Integration and Development in Southern Africa and the Southern Cone in Fu, Xiaolan & Soete, Luc, eds., The Rise of Technological Power in the South. London, UK: Palgrave-Macmillan, pages 300-319.

Akpan-Obong, Patience (2006). Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) and African Development in Smith, Malinda S., ed., Beyond the African Tragedy: Discourses on Development and the Global Economy. London, UK: Ashgate Publishers, pages 247-268.

Akpan-Obong, Patience (2004). From the margins to the center: Information and communication technologies as tools for development in Kalu, Kelechi Amihe, ed., Agenda Setting and Public Policy in Africa. London, UK: Ashgate Publishers, pages 115-150.