Community business: the internet in remote Australian Indigenous communities

McCallum, Kerry; Papandrea, Franco

doi:10.1177/1461444809342059

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“…In some cases this is noted to have occurred without due diligence to the local context and cultures (McLoughlin 1999, McCallum andPapandrea 2009). The diversity of indigenous cultures is reflected in languages, demographic histories and a multitude of other variable localised circumstances.…”

Section: Why the Ict Doomsayers Were Wrongmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…Common tasks included checking balances, transferring money to family and purchasing goods from outside of the community. Meanwhile McCallum and Papandrea's (2009) study in Central Australia found more Internet users used banking functionality than email or general browsing (p. 1239), although it must be remembered that Indigenous people are now coerced to e-commerce by the introduction of the 'Basics Card' for income quarantining under the Northern Territory Emergency Response (Hamilton 2010). Accounts of e-commerce failures in remote Indigenous cite funding shortfalls, poor levels of support for locals, a lack of effort to garner local input to the design and implementation, and limited training for program managers and local facilitators (Daly 2005).…”

Section: E-services and E-commercementioning

confidence: 97%

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More than Mobile: Migration and Mobility Impacts from the ‘Technologies of Change’ for Aboriginal Communities in the Remote Northern Territory of Australia

Taylor

2012

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Information communication technologies have permeated new consumer markets at remarkable speeds, diffusing to even the most remote and economically marginalised populations. In remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory of Australia, residents have until recently been isolated from these symbols and facilitators of globalisation. But the rapid diffusion of Internet based technologies in recent years raises important questions about future residential migration aspirations as residents engage with the global order. In this paper we critically review these 'technologies of change' for their propensity to alter remote Indigenous spatiality. We propose a theoretical reconstruction of transitional migration theory, as it has been previously applied, and denote the implications for policy makers, researchers and service providers.

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Section: Why the Ict Doomsayers Were Wrongmentioning

confidence: 94%

Section: E-services and E-commercementioning

confidence: 97%

More than Mobile: Migration and Mobility Impacts from the ‘Technologies of Change’ for Aboriginal Communities in the Remote Northern Territory of Australia

Taylor

2012

Mobilities

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“…Technological innovations, understood as being in complicit with globalization, have been criticized for the mainstreaming of cultures and as a threat to biocultural diversity (see Maffi, 2001 for a compilation of different confirmatory studies). Studies on the invasive impact of new technologies on indigenous cultures (Dyson & Underwood, 2006;Hahn & Kibora, 2008) have been juxtaposed with those highlighting the beneficial impact of technologies on cultures (McCallum & Papandrea, 2009;Taylor, 2012). Development achieved through the introduction of technology raises fundamental issues of freedom and sustainability of 'beneficiary' communities (Thompson, 2004).…”

Section: Technology Development and Adaptationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mobile Ecosystems Among Low‐Skilled Migrants in Singapore: An Investigation into Mobile Usage Practices

Aricat

2015

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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The paper explores how the ideas of freedom and constraints are inherent to the phenomenon of adaptation. In order to explicate this tension in the migrant adaptation process, the study adopts the development approach that has highlighted freedom as means and ends of development – the capability approach. The study explores answers to the questions (i) To what extent does migrants’ adaptation to the host country, including to its mobile ecosystem, ensure their freedom and to what extent the adaptation is a constraint for them?; and, (ii) How do various strategies of adaptation help migrants achieve development in social, economic and political domains? In‐depth interviews were conducted among 50 low‐skilled migrants from Bangladesh and India in Singapore. Findings showed that mobile phone usage helped enhance the functionings of migrant workers, although there were constraints in achieving improvements in their capabilities. Hierarchical organizational structures acted as external constraints, whereas overdependence on mobile phones and forsaking of ideals of collective action acted as internal impediments. The study calls for a renewed understanding of adaptation in transnational migration context, with more focus on revealing the tensions between the adapting entity and the factors curtailing the freedom of the adapting entity.

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“…McCallum and Papandrea [27] studied technology use in Australian remote aboriginal communities and found that people had very little access to networked technology and typically underused the internet to a great degree. Underuse was also found by Oreglia et al [30] who studied technology use by farm families in rural China.…”

Section: Technology Use In Rural/remote Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Designed for work, but not from here

Melvin

Bunt

2012

Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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While workers in an urban environment typically enjoy full speed, always available, broadband access, those in rural and remote environments do not necessarily have access to the same level of service. In this paper we describe insights from a qualitative study examining the benefits and continued challenges of using networked technologies for work purposes in rural and remote communities. Our findings indicate that work in these areas increasingly depends on networked technology to support in-situ and geographically distributed work practices, and to ameliorate health and safety issues, but that participants experience significant challenges in obtaining signal access and stability. We discuss implications for design and future research that arise from our findings.

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Community business: the internet in remote Australian Indigenous communities

Abstract: This article reports on the findings of a research project that

Cited by 24 publications

References 17 publications

More than Mobile: Migration and Mobility Impacts from the ‘Technologies of Change’ for Aboriginal Communities in the Remote Northern Territory of Australia

More than Mobile: Migration and Mobility Impacts from the ‘Technologies of Change’ for Aboriginal Communities in the Remote Northern Territory of Australia

Mobile Ecosystems Among Low‐Skilled Migrants in Singapore: An Investigation into Mobile Usage Practices

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