1. INTRODUCTION
The globalisation process has intensified and delocalised social relations at a worldwide level; it has connected “distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many milkes away and vice versa. Local transformation is as much a part of globalisation as the lateral extension of social connections across time and space” (Giddens, 1990).
The revolutionary changes that have occurred in information technology and the ensuing phenomenon of the digital divide are important aspects of this process. In this study, we analyse the digital divide by looking at it from a peripheral perspective compared to the “developed” world, where this “revolution” started.
Africa and Kenya thus become the changing local context from which we observe the penetration of new technologies as part of the globalisation process. The way that takes the reader from a global to a local perspective invites reflections on what could be the “African way” towards the ownership and the use of media and technology. Culture, individuals, technology, and global processes become closely intertwined.

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