Exploring functional dynamics of innovation for inclusive development: event history analysis of an ICT4D project

IF 1.4 Q3 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Innovation and Development Pub Date : 2021-08-17 DOI:10.1080/2157930X.2021.1956712

Berno Maarsingh, S. Grobbelaar, Mauricio Uriona-Maldonado, M. Herselman

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) projects aim to improve the living conditions of marginalized communities. However, ICT4D interventions have high failure rates. We draw on the Technological Innovation for Inclusive Development Systems (TI4IDS) framework, which argues that ICT4D projects are embedded in a system affected by many different actors, stakeholders and institutions. We analyze this through a qualitative exploratory case study of an ICT4D project for Elderly Rural Women in Mafarafara in Limpopo, South Africa. We map a set of TI4IDS functions through event history analysis (EHA) to explore how ICT4D projects may be implemented. We draw conclusions regarding the dynamic exhibited in the projects and show how the focus shifted from the development of knowledge and guidance of search to knowledge diffusion during the uptake of the technology with a more significant focus on resource mobilization and market formulation towards the later phases.

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探索包容性发展创新的功能动态:ICT4D项目的事件历史分析

信息和通信技术促进发展(ICT4D)项目旨在改善边缘化社区的生活条件。然而，ICT4D干预措施失败率很高。我们借鉴了技术创新促进包容性发展系统(TI4IDS)框架，该框架认为ICT4D项目嵌入一个受许多不同行为者、利益相关者和机构影响的系统中。我们通过对南非林波波省马法法拉省农村老年妇女ICT4D项目的定性探索性案例研究来分析这一点。我们通过事件历史分析(EHA)映射了一组TI4IDS功能，以探索如何实施ICT4D项目。我们得出了关于项目中所展示的动态的结论，并展示了在技术吸收过程中，重点如何从知识的开发和搜索指导转移到知识的传播，并在后期阶段更加注重资源动员和市场制定。

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Innovation and Development Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

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期刊介绍： conomic development and growth depend as much on social innovations as on technological advances. However, the discourse has often been confined to technological innovations in the industrial sector, with insufficient attention being paid to institutional and organisational change and to the informal sector which in some countries in the South plays a significant role. Innovation and Development is an interdisciplinary journal that adopts a broad approach to the study of innovation, in all sectors of the economy and sections of society, furthering understanding of the multidimensional process of innovation and development. It provides a forum for the discussion of issues pertaining to innovation, development and their interaction, both in the developed and developing world, with the aim of encouraging sustainable and inclusive growth. The journal encourages articles that approach the problem broadly in line with innovation system perspective focusing on the evolutionary and institutional structure of innovation and development. This focus cuts across the disciplines of Economics, Sociology, Political Science, Science and Technology Policy, Geography and Development Practice. In a section entitled Innovation in Practice, the journal includes short reports on innovative experiments with proven development impact with a view to encouraging scholars to undertake systematic inquiries on such experiments. Brief abstracts of degree awarded PhD theses in the broad area of concern for the journal and brief notes which highlight innovative ways of using internet resources and new databases or software are also published.