经济全球化起源于技术进步特别是信息技术的进步,技术进步水平在很大程度上决定了一个国家在经济全球化进程中所处的地位。非洲是当今世界上经济最不发达的大陆,也是信息技术最落后的大陆。非洲7亿人口约占世界总人口的12％,但电话主线拥有量却只占世界总量的2％,且主要集中在南非和北非地区。非洲普遍缺乏当地生产的计算机 Economic globalization has its origin in the progress of technology, especially in information technology. The level of technological progress largely determines the position that a country occupies in the process of economic globalization. Africa is the most economically underdeveloped continent in the world today and the most backward continent in information technology. Africa’s 700 million people make up about 12% of the world’s population, but its main line of telephone accounts for only 2% of the world total, and is mainly concentrated in South Africa and North Africa. There is a general lack of locally produced computers in Africa