Author(s)

Seydou Harouna Fatouma¹, Shen Lei¹, Hamadou Tahirou Abdoulkarim²

¹Glorious Sun School of Business and Management, Donghua University, Shanghai, China.
²School of Economics and Management, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, China.

In recent years worldwide boundaries have been redefined, thanks to internet and technologies which facilitate increasingly the interaction between virtual friends and socials networking users. Consumers as well as producers in both developed and developing countries share information, pictures and videos via the Web 2.0 tools available on electronic devices and Internet websites. However due to several obstacles, activities such as co-creations, digital collaboration and others socials networking can be limited for some users. Thus this article discussed various factors that limit developing countries’ prosumers interactivity in the age of Web 2.0 technology. The factors influencing numbers of users’ collaboration can be individual, organizational, technological and/ or environmental factors.

Web 2.0, Prosumers, Internet, Developing Countries

Fatouma, S. , Lei, S. and Abdoulkarim, H. (2016) Prosumption and Web 2.0 Challenges Faced by African Countries Users. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 4, 122-127. doi: 10.4236/jss.2016.47020.