This thematic unit will permit to describe IT situations in enterprises in West Africa: Senegal, Ghana, and the Ivory Coast. The introduction will demonstrate regional tendencies and the role of Senegal as a regional hub of digital transformation (cf. Friederici 2019). New products, new services, and new forms of cooperation will be discussed. It will be shown that digital entrepreneurship is advancing not only in technology hubs but in all areas where Internet access is given. Connections to local, regional, and global markets will be shown. Long-term implications of the digital transformations will also be tackled (cf. Deichmann et al. 2016).

Socio-economic local and national legacies and contexts influence economic activities, even in the digital sector (Kamdem 2004). In this unit, we'll analyse how economic actors, digital technologies and socio-economic environments have interacted in the 21 st century in West Africa. Academic discourses and political programs give inaccurate visions of entrepreneurship in the digital sector. Our