Computing within limits and ICTD

Chen, Jay

doi:10.5210/fm.v20i8.6124

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“…Thirdly, the ICT4D literature provides a wider view of resilience because it places the concept within a broader normative, even moral, context (Chen, 2015). The development agenda wants systems to change, but there is a danger that a resilience agenda means "poor communities will stay in a resiliently poor state" (Marais, 2015, p. 436).…”

Section: Ict4d and Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptualising the link between information systems and resilience: A developing country field study

Heeks

Ospina

2018

Information Systems Journal

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Resilience—the ability of systems to cope with external shocks and trends—is a topic of increasing interest to research and practice. That growing interest is reflected within information systems (IS), but a structured review of IS literature shows a number of knowledge gaps around the conceptual and empirical application of resilience. This paper investigates what the subdiscipline of information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) can contribute; finding that it offers the IS discipline fresh insights that can be built into a new framework of resilience, and an arena within which this new framework can appropriately be field tested. Application of the resilience framework was undertaken through interviews and a survey in an urban community in Costa Rica; benchmarking both community resilience and “e‐resilience” (understood here as the contribution of ICTs to community resilience), and developing from these a set of action priorities. The paper reflects on what can be learned generally from this conceptualisation and operationalisation of resilience. It also reflects on what ICTs contribute to resilience in developing countries and on what this ICT4D‐based research specifically contributes to the identified IS knowledge gaps. This includes identification of a future research agenda on information systems and resilience.

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Section: Ict4d and Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptualising the link between information systems and resilience: A developing country field study

Heeks

Ospina

2018

Information Systems Journal

113

119

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“…Here we can turn to the experience of colleagues already exploring "the edges of the Internet": researchers in ICT4D [6] and those who propose delay tolerant networking for deep space communication have already studied partially available network infrastructures where nodes are only fleetingly available, and draw upon intermittent power sources (e.g. from renewable energy sources).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Limits to the sharing economy

Pargman

Eriksson

Friday

2016

Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computing Within Limits

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There has been much interest in the Sharing Economy in recent years, accompanied with the hope that it will change and specifically make better use of existing resources. It intuitively makes sense, from a sustainability point of view, that the sharing of resources is good. It could even be said that the Sharing Economy ought to align well with Computing within Limits and its underlying premises. In this paper however, we take a critical stance and will elaborate on the intersection between the Sharing Economy and Limits (including pinpointing potential conflicts) so as to identify and discuss a 'Limits-compliant Sharing Economy'. We argue that even though there are limits to the Sharing Economy today, it still has potential benefits for a future of scarcitybut only if the practice of sharing is approached with a dual focus on sharing and on limits at the same time. Finally we conclude that even though we have begun to explore the future of sharing, there is still a need to further develop ideas of how the underlying infrastructure for this movement will look.

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“…Solutions to the unique ICT4D project challenges (see Table 1) have focused on various elements of the process of designing and delivering technology solutions. These include a focus on alternative approaches to solution design, such as addressing the design-reality gap [3,15,16], participatory design methods (e.g., [17,18]), frugal technology design [19], or design for resource constraints [13]. Other remedies include alternative approaches to project transfer and scaling (e.g., [20,21]).…”

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An Exploration of the Integration Challenges Inherent in the Adoption of ICT in an Education System

Meyer¹,

Marais²,

Ford³

et al. 2017

Information and Communication Technologies for Development

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The high failure rate of development interventions is well known. An approach to sustainable interventions is defined, based on a systems perspective that focuses on the ability of a system to integrate an intervention. The design of an intervention requires an understanding of the current state of the system from the perspective of being able to realise the intended benefit. This is called the readiness of the system, and is constituted by the level of maturity of the essential elements and the nature of the interrelationships that are required to realise and sustain the benefits. Interventions can be designed to match the current readiness of the system and to define the system changes toward the desired end state. These principles were developed during the implementation of an ICT for Rural Education (ICT4RED) project in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The practical implications for project design, execution and handover to the education system are illustrated.

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Computing within limits and ICTD

Cited by 26 publications

References 49 publications

Conceptualising the link between information systems and resilience: A developing country field study

Conceptualising the link between information systems and resilience: A developing country field study

Limits to the sharing economy

An Exploration of the Integration Challenges Inherent in the Adoption of ICT in an Education System

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