{"title":"Centering queer knowledge paradigms in designing and implementing health information and communication technologies","authors":"Travis L. Wagner, Vanessa L. Kitzie","doi":"10.1080/02681102.2023.2233475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02681102.2023.2233475","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51547,"journal":{"name":"Information Technology for Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45247943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effect of ICT on financial sector development in Africa: does regulatory quality matter?","authors":"I. Raifu, Ismail Okunoye, Alarudeen Aminu","doi":"10.1080/02681102.2023.2233458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02681102.2023.2233458","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51547,"journal":{"name":"Information Technology for Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42527351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strategic Information Systems (SIS) implementation at a bank in an emerging economy: implications for strategic enterprise capabilities and societal development","authors":"Dereje Mulat Ferede, S. Negash, Peter Meso","doi":"10.1080/02681102.2023.2225164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02681102.2023.2225164","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51547,"journal":{"name":"Information Technology for Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44897020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cycles of development in systems of survival with artificial intelligence: a formative research agenda","authors":"S. Qureshi","doi":"10.1080/02681102.2023.2236424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02681102.2023.2236424","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) may take over many functions performed by humans while offering new opportunities for socio-economic development. However, the unchecked ubiquitous adoption of generative Machine Learning (ML)that appears to assist humans while increasing job losses, inequities and threats to social institutions. Systems of survival are explored in the light of the synergies between governments who aim to protect their citizens and corporations who trade with them. Understanding how these processes affect human agency, particularly that of refugee populations whose data is harvested from their cellphones while they seek to build new lives in foreign lands. Their resilience, ingenuity and contributions to the global economy may hold the key to supporting positive cycles of development. A formative agenda is offered that enables researchers to support positive cycles of development that account for the systems of survival needed for equitable artificial intelligence implementations.","PeriodicalId":51547,"journal":{"name":"Information Technology for Development","volume":"29 1","pages":"171 - 183"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46497621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sustainable business value model in the ICT4D research agenda","authors":"Angélica Pigola, F. Meirelles","doi":"10.1080/02681102.2023.2202166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02681102.2023.2202166","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) emerges positively as a sustainable practice since several studies are focusing on these positive aspects, such as digital financial inclusion and digital platforms for helping communities. This study intends to investigate how a sustainable business value model (SBVM) might be framed in ICT4D from the perspective of business practices. We analyzed the literature of 160 publications in the ICT4D research field from 2003 to 2022 using social network and content analysis to perform a systematic literature review. The findings reveal six different business value perspectives to establish an SBVM in ICT4D initiatives, suggesting a broader perspective for innovators and entrepreneurs to create new business formations for better development outcomes in their communities. This paper contributes to socioeconomic development by identifying ways in which the SBVM may contribute to different communities’ development in emergent countries.","PeriodicalId":51547,"journal":{"name":"Information Technology for Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49335652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Data management system for sustainable agriculture among smallholder farmers in Tanzania: research-in-progress","authors":"G. E. Mushi, G. Serugendo, Pierre-Yves Burgi","doi":"10.1080/02681102.2023.2215528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02681102.2023.2215528","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers produce about 70% of the world’s food and employ more than one billion people. They therefore have an important role to play in eradicating food insecurity and poverty among the world’s growing population. Although there are different digital services for smallholder farmers, the existing services lack sustainability in the agriculture context and hardly meet their needs. Data management and sharing among different agriculture stakeholders has the potential to make agriculture sustainable, but there is a need to enable access to digital services in an entire farming cycle under one roof. This paper aims to propose the design of a comprehensive data management digital framework to solve common challenges of smallholder farmers in Tanzania and other countries’ agricultural systems. We follow the design science research (DSR) method to develop an artifact that interacts with the problem context. To illustrate the framework’s applicability, we use different case studies in Tanzania.","PeriodicalId":51547,"journal":{"name":"Information Technology for Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47750624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Criminal factions and ICT-Mediated financial inclusion in Brazilian favelas: the role of context","authors":"L. Joia, Stefano Giarelli","doi":"10.1080/02681102.2023.2215718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02681102.2023.2215718","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The city of Rio de Janeiro has the highest proportion of people living in favelas in Brazil and their residents have very restricted access to financial services, often needing to commute to other neighborhoods to make simple transactions. Therefore, this research examines a fintech startup called Banco Maré, created to improve financial inclusion in the largest complex of favelas of Rio de Janeiro - Complexo da Maré. A model for ICT-mediated financial inclusion based on the Capability Approach was applied to evaluate this initiative in two favelas dominated by distinct criminal factions in the complex. The results suggest that the financial inclusion depends on the nature of criminal factions dominating same. The work, therefore, indicates that contexts where an institutional order that favors greater agency, empowerment and participation of residents prevail, can strongly affect ICT-based financial inclusion initiatives in favelas dominated by lawless organizations.","PeriodicalId":51547,"journal":{"name":"Information Technology for Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43133137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Renai Jiang, Sheng-jun Yang, Sidong Lian, G. Jefferson
{"title":"The impact of internet development on green total factor productivity in China’s prefectural cities","authors":"Renai Jiang, Sheng-jun Yang, Sidong Lian, G. Jefferson","doi":"10.1080/02681102.2023.2215737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02681102.2023.2215737","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper uses the global Malmquist-Luenberger index to measure the effect of Internet development on the green total factor productivity (GTFP) of China’s 283 prefectural cities. We find that by promoting high-quality development, the effect of Internet is significantly positive. Firstly, we explore the two mechanisms through which the use of the Internet promotes GTFP: improvements in the quantity and quality of urban innovation and the advancement and rationalization of urban industrial structures. Secondly, we compare the pre- and post-impacts of the Internet + initiative from which it draws critical policy implications. Finally, threshold regression shows that when urban Internet penetration and employee wages rise to their respective threshold levels, the promotion effect of the Internet on GTFP can be further augmented. Meanwhile, from the perspective of Intensive Growth Theory, the Internet’s contribution to green labor productivity is more pronounced.","PeriodicalId":51547,"journal":{"name":"Information Technology for Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42195455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Explaining the digital divide in the European Union: the complementary role of information security concerns in the social process of internet appropriation","authors":"G. Lamberti, J. López-Sintas, Jakkapong Sukphan","doi":"10.1080/02681102.2023.2202640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02681102.2023.2202640","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Most theoretical and empirical explanations of the generation of digital divides have been integrated into the resources and appropriation theory, which proposes a sequential model reflecting a socially unequally distributed digital divide. The unequal social distribution is reflected in internet use that is sequentially influenced by motivations/attitudes, physical access, and digital skills. We extend the sequential model by exploring the complementary role of information security concerns in producing the digital divide. Using a predictive approach, we tested a comprehensive partial least squares-structural equation model with data from a European Union survey, finding that information security concern is another significant determiner of the digital divide. Heterogeneity in social internet appropriation can be summarized in social mechanisms explained by education and age among well-educated Europeans, and by country digital development among less well-educated Europeans. We conclude with a discussion of theoretical and policy implications of our findings.","PeriodicalId":51547,"journal":{"name":"Information Technology for Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48634108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Phone2SAS: 3D scanning by smartphone aids the realization of small-angle scattering.","authors":"Hiroshi Imamura","doi":"10.2142/biophysico.bppb-v20.0021","DOIUrl":"10.2142/biophysico.bppb-v20.0021","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Small-angle scattering (SAS) is a powerful tool for the detailed structural analysis of objects at the nanometer scale. In contrast to techniques such as electron microscopy, SAS data are presented as reciprocal space information, which hinders the intuitive interpretation of SAS data. This study presents a workflow: (1) creating objects, (2) 3D scanning, (3) the representation of the object as point clouds on a laptop, (4) computation of a distance distribution function, and (5) computation of SAS, executed via the computer program Phone2SAS. This enables us to realize SAS and perform the interactive modeling of SAS of the object of interest. Because 3D scanning is easily accessible through smartphones, this workflow driven by Phone2SAS contributes to the widespread use of SAS. The application of Phone2SAS for the structural assignment of SAS to Y-shaped antibodies is reported in this study.</p>","PeriodicalId":51547,"journal":{"name":"Information Technology for Development","volume":"22 1","pages":"e200021"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10941956/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81270883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}