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Participatory video for nutrition training for farmers in Malawi: an analysis of knowledge gain and adoption 马拉维农民营养培训参与式视频:对知识获取和采用的分析

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development Pub Date : 2015-05-15 DOI: 10.1145/2737856.2737878

Tian Cai, Hastings Chiwasa, C. Steinfield, Susan Wyche

引用次数: 10

VillageApps: a platform to educate underprivileged communities in their mother tongue VillageApps:一个用母语教育贫困社区的平台

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development Pub Date : 2015-05-15 DOI: 10.1145/2737856.2737904

I. Ghaznavi, Umar Muneer, Usman Shahid, Shan Randhawa, Kashif Ali, Tapan S. Parikh, U. Saif

引用次数: 2

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development Pub Date : 2015-05-15 DOI: 10.1145/2737856.2738030

Komathi Ale

{"title":"Work-related use and positive livelihood outcomes among mobile phone users in Asia","authors":"Komathi Ale","doi":"10.1145/2737856.2738030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2737856.2738030","url":null,"abstract":"This study set out to investigate the effects of psychological mechanisms on using mobile phones for work-related communication, and subsequently to prove that people at the bottom of the pyramid in Asia who use their phones strategically reap positive livelihood-related outcomes. Grounded in the theory of reasoned action and technology acceptance model it looks at the relationship between perceived self-efficacy, usefulness, ease of use, social influence, monetary value and gender on usage for strategic communication, and resultant benefits. Based on the Teleuse4@BoP survey, the study focuses on mobile phone owners only (N=4926), and runs a series of binary logistical regressions and ordinary least-squares regressions to predict hypotheses. I found that the positive relationship between perceived usefulness and strategic usage of mobile phones for work-related communication is stronger among people who have irregular incomes. Social influence is negatively related to strategic usage of mobile phones for work-related communication. Perceived monetary value is negatively related to strategic usage of mobile phones for work-related communication. The negative relationship between gender and strategic usage of mobile phones for work-related communication is stronger among people who have jobs that require mobile phone use. And strategic usage of mobile phones for work-related communication is positively related to livelihood-related positive outcomes, holding other things constant. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.","PeriodicalId":210700,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129697348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Projecting health: community-led video education for maternal health 健康规划:社区主导的孕产妇健康视频教育

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development Pub Date : 2015-05-15 DOI: 10.1145/2737856.2738023

Neha Kumar, Trevor Perrier, Michelle Desmond, K. Israel-Ballard, Vikrant Kumar, Sudip Mahapatra, Anil Mishra, S. Agarwal, R. Gandhi, Pallavi Lal, Richard J. Anderson

引用次数: 96

Mobile technology for refugee resilience in urban and peri-urban Malaysia 移动技术促进马来西亚城市和城郊地区的难民复原力

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development Pub Date : 2015-05-15 DOI: 10.1145/2737856.2737876

Claire Cravero

引用次数: 8

Twitter democracy: policy versus identity politics in three emerging African democracies 推特民主:三个新兴非洲民主国家的政策与身份政治

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development Pub Date : 2015-05-15 DOI: 10.1145/2737856.2738017

M. Best, Amanda Meng

{"title":"Twitter democracy: policy versus identity politics in three emerging African democracies","authors":"M. Best, Amanda Meng","doi":"10.1145/2737856.2738017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2737856.2738017","url":null,"abstract":"Social media offers new ways for citizens to discuss and debate politics and engage in the democratic process. These online systems could be places for rich policy relevant debate, which is favored by scholars of deliberative democracy. Alternatively, social media might be a platform for an identity driven form of political discourse that is routinely scorned by scholars of democracy. To examine these two possibilities, we analyzed tweets sent during three national elections, the defining participatory process of democracy. Our dataset includes over 760,000 tweets gathered during national elections in Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya from 2011 to 2013. In order to analyze the degree to which Twitter was being used for policy relevant discussion we developed policy term sets through a text analysis of the major political party platforms. To examine the amount of discourse focused on identity issues we created identity term sets based upon national religious, tribal, and regional differences. In Nigeria, where divisive identity politics feed violence and electoral misconduct, discussion of tribe, region, and religion dominate mentions of platform policies. In contrast Ghanaians, who enjoy the most robust democracy of the three countries, were seven times more likely to discuss policy issues rather than identity. Kenyan democracy is still undergoing consolidation, and tweets again reflect this, with almost as many tweets devoted to tribal identity as campaign policy. These findings suggest that social media discussions may echo the state of democratic deepening found in a country during its national elections.","PeriodicalId":210700,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120878161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 17

Investigating contexts of use for the development of domestic healthcare technology: an ethnographic study 调查国内医疗保健技术发展的使用背景:一项民族志研究

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development Pub Date : 2015-05-15 DOI: 10.1145/2737856.2737888

A. Burrows, J. Noyes, R. Gooberman-Hill, D. Coyle

引用次数: 1

Gender and accessibility in Rwanda and Malawi 卢旺达和马拉维的性别和无障碍环境

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development Pub Date : 2015-05-15 DOI: 10.1145/2737856.2738020

J. Pal, Maura Youngman, Terence O'Neill, Priyank Chandra, Cyprien Semushi

引用次数: 19

The persistence of paper: a case study in microfinance from Ghana 论文的持久性:加纳小额信贷案例研究

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development Pub Date : 2015-05-15 DOI: 10.1145/2737856.2738029

Ishita Ghosh, Jay Chen, Joy Ming, A. Abouzeid

{"title":"The persistence of paper: a case study in microfinance from Ghana","authors":"Ishita Ghosh, Jay Chen, Joy Ming, A. Abouzeid","doi":"10.1145/2737856.2738029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2737856.2738029","url":null,"abstract":"Paper as a medium persists as the de facto standard for information collection, storage, and transfer in many low-resource developing contexts. Of these contexts, the microfinance industry continues to be fascinating in the ongoing ICTD conversation due, in part, to its elimination of paper by digitizing money transfers using mobile banking. This success invites scholars, designers, and industry practitioners to design technology solutions to eliminate the perceived inefficiencies of paper in microfinance and other industries. In this work, we take a step back to assess the role and value of paper in order to give designers pause when considering a blanket digitization of existing processes, norms, and transactions. Specifically, we study a microfinance ecosystem in the city of Tema in Ghana and find that paper passbooks are able to deliver valuable context-specific information to its owners that derive from the specific affordances of paper itself. Our findings encourage a more nuanced view of paper's place in microfinance, and consequently, in similar low-resource settings.","PeriodicalId":210700,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122969359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 32

Sada Vehra: a framework for crowdsourcing Punjabi language content Sada Vehra:众包旁遮普语内容的框架

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development Pub Date : 2015-05-15 DOI: 10.1145/2737856.2737901

Jasmine Hentschel, J. Pal

引用次数: 2