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What does a goat have to do with development? diasporas, it, and the case of thamel.com* 山羊和发育有什么关系?散居者，它，和thamel.com的案例*

Information Technologies & International Development Pub Date : 2008-10-01 DOI: 10.1162/ITID.2008.00023

Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff

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引用次数: 14

Problematic empowerment: West african internet scams as strategic misrepresentation 有问题的授权:西非互联网骗局作为战略失实陈述

Information Technologies & International Development Pub Date : 2008-10-01 DOI: 10.1162/ITID.2008.00024

J. Burrell

引用次数: 75

Announcing itid 2.0 宣布itid 2.0

Information Technologies & International Development Pub Date : 2008-10-01 DOI: 10.1162/ITID.2008.00021

F. Bar, M. Best

引用次数: 2

Sustainability failures of rural telecenters: Challenges from the sustainable access in rural india (sari) project 农村远程中心的可持续性失败:来自印度农村可持续接入(sari)项目的挑战

Information Technologies & International Development Pub Date : 2008-10-01 DOI: 10.1162/ITID.2008.00025

M. Best, Rajendra T. Kumar

{"title":"Sustainability failures of rural telecenters: Challenges from the sustainable access in rural india (sari) project","authors":"M. Best, Rajendra T. Kumar","doi":"10.1162/ITID.2008.00025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/ITID.2008.00025","url":null,"abstract":"We have examined longitudinally an ICT for a development project in rural India, closely watching activities and surveying users at as many as 100 Internet facilities in more than 50 different villages. The Sustainable Access in Rural India (SARI) project in Tamil Nadu, India, enjoyed many successes, including palpable---albeit localized---social and economic development impacts as well as the incubation of an---albeit inconsistently---celebrated ICT for a development start-up company (n-Logue Communications Pvt. Ltd.). Ultimately, however, the SARI project did not sustain itself. In the particular outcomes reported here, we follow the prospects of 36 private telecenters which were opened at various times between November 2001 and February 2004. By May 2005, 32 of these 36 telecenters had closed. However, in the same time period, most of 42 telecenters in the same area that were opened and run by a local NGO continued to function. We provide a comparative analysis between these two groups of facilities. We find that the best explanation for variation in a kiosk lifespan was their level of satisfaction with n-Logue Communications. Moreover, those sites that did express satisfaction with their institutional and technical support were in service for, on average, an additional year compared with dissatisfied sites. In addition to technical and operational support issues, we find that the lack of long-term financial viability was a major reason for the closure of the private telecenters. Financial sustainability was not realized by many centers; indeed, 85% of the operators interviewed cited finances as a major cause for their closure. Finally, telecenters that were owned by individuals with prior training in computers, or that had a separate trained operator, remained operational for a longer period.","PeriodicalId":45625,"journal":{"name":"Information Technologies & International Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64557291","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: 173

Why a holistic e-development framework? 为什么是一个整体的电子发展框架?

Information Technologies & International Development Pub Date : 2008-10-01 DOI: 10.1162/ITID.2008.00022

Nagy K. Hanna

{"title":"Why a holistic e-development framework?","authors":"Nagy K. Hanna","doi":"10.1162/ITID.2008.00022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/ITID.2008.00022","url":null,"abstract":"A growing number of policy makers and development practitioners appreciate that the ICT revolution is opening up new sources of growth and offering new opportunities to solve long-standing development problems as well as transforming industries and services so fundamentally that it is changing the competitive advantages of countries. ICT is driving a technological revolution that is sweeping entire economies and transforming institutions, learning processes, and innovation systems. Yet, current research, education and development assistance practice have primarily focused on separate elements of this transformation. Much of the documented failures of ICT applications in e-government, e-business, e-education or rural development are traced to fragmented approaches that missed key enablers or operated within the current silos of the ICT paradigm. Also, several past contributions to Forum have lamented the lack of an integrated view of ICT4D research as a part of the larger puzzle of development (for example, Raiti, 2006). Others (Wilson, 2005) suggested ways scholars may enhance dialogue with thoughtful practitioners in ICT4D by framing ICT issues in broader contexts, and by understanding the dynamics of ICT as a process. In response, I would like to advance the framework of e-development as a holistic approach to leveraging ICT for development (ICT4D)—by pursuing mutually reinforcing ICT-enabled initiatives at the national or regional level. It is about creating an information society or knowledge economy “ecosystem”—an integrated approach that deanes a vision, coordinates the work of stakeholders, and maps the connections to shape the relationships among diverse players. Accordingly, ICT4D is deaned most holistically in order to facilitate a way of systematically thinking about ICT as an enabler of development, of strategically managing integrated ICT4D programs, of tapping synergies among interdependent elements of ICT, and of communicating to a broad community of practice.","PeriodicalId":45625,"journal":{"name":"Information Technologies & International Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64557191","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: 9

Ict in education reform in cambodia: Problems, politics, and policies impacting implementation 柬埔寨教育改革中的Ict:问题、政治和影响实施的政策

Information Technologies & International Development Pub Date : 2008-10-01 DOI: 10.1162/ITID.2008.00027

J. Richardson

引用次数: 39

The impact of mobile telephony on developing country micro-enterprise: A nigerian case study 移动电话对发展中国家微型企业的影响:以尼日利亚为例

Information Technologies & International Development Pub Date : 2008-10-01 DOI: 10.1162/ITID.2008.00026

A. Jagun, Richard Heeks, J. Whalley

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引用次数: 173

The institutional framework of the united nations development programme--ministry of science and technology (undp--most) telecenter project in rural china 联合国开发计划署-科技部(undp- most)中国农村远程中心项目的体制框架

Information Technologies & International Development Pub Date : 2008-04-01 DOI: 10.1162/ITID.2008.00016

Chun-Wang Zhang

引用次数: 15

Using diffusion of innovations framework to explain communal computing facilities adoption among the urban poor 利用创新扩散框架解释城市贫民采用公共计算设施的原因

Information Technologies & International Development Pub Date : 2008-04-01 DOI: 10.1162/ITID.2008.00017

W. Chigona, P. Licker

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引用次数: 89

The impact of the internet on local social equity: A study of a telecenter in aguablanca, colombia 互联网对地方社会公平的影响:哥伦比亚阿瓜布兰卡电信中心的研究

Information Technologies & International Development Pub Date : 2008-04-01 DOI: 10.1162/ITID.2008.00015

S. Parkinson, Al Lauzon

引用次数: 52