Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) critique

Schelenz, Laura; Pawelec, Maria

doi:10.1080/02681102.2021.1937473

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“…An improved understanding of the challenges and opportunities that ICTs pose for women MSME entrepreneurs is an important step towards bridging the gender digital divide and transforming it into digital opportunity. The current study reflects a major critique of Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) research, which often discusses the operation of processes and agents of digitalisation without giving salience to local conditions and culture (Schelenz and Pawelec 2021). This study is aimed to understand and address some of these challenges.…”

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The digitally mediated lives of women MSME entrepreneurs in India: Navigating the “access‐use” conundrum

Mishra

Mohanty

2022

Int Social Sci J

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The dialectics of information and communication technologies (ICTs) entail their potential in fostering digital dividends and fomenting digital exclusion. Based on 165 personal interviews with women entrepreneurs of MSMEs in the Ganjam and Gajapati districts of the state of Odisha in India, this study considers the opportunities and challenges regarding the access and use of ICTs. The primary intent of the study is to explore the participants' views on the diversity of ICT use, the relevance of these technologies for their businesses, and the challenges they face while using the digital technologies. Deploying Amartya Sen's Capability Approach (CA) as the primary theoretical lens, this study documents the popularity of "new ICTs" among the respondents, the constraints they face in performing digital transactions, their views on digital exclusion, and the impact of local factors (language barriers and institutional support) on their digital appropriation. Based on these findings, the study emphasises the need for increased availability of business-relevant content on ICT platforms, incorporation of ICT training in ongoing programmes, and explores ways of overcoming the language barriers and promoting effective use of digital payment applications. This study aims at enhancing the ICT-related capability sets of women entrepreneurs in the underdeveloped sub-regions of India.

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The digitally mediated lives of women MSME entrepreneurs in India: Navigating the “access‐use” conundrum

Mishra

Mohanty

2022

Int Social Sci J

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“…Observe that it is us who will em-power marginalised communities by introducing our disruptive language technologies (Joshi et al, 2019), while unwittingly reinforcing the centralperipheral model (cf. Schelenz and Pawelec, 2022).…”

Section: Poverty-conscious Language Technologymentioning

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Local Languages, Third Spaces, and other High-Resource Scenarios

Bird¹

2022

Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

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How can language technology address the diverse situations of the world's languages? In one view, languages exist on a resource continuum and the challenge is to scale existing solutions, bringing under-resourced languages into the high-resource world. In another view, presented here, the world's language ecology includes standardised languages, local languages, and contact languages. These are often subsumed under the label of 'under-resourced languages' even though they have distinct functions and prospects. I explore this position and propose some ecologically-aware language technology agendas.

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“…Therefore, ICT agriculture that simply follows traditional extension approaches cannot be transformative in the aspects of equity and inclusiveness. Instead, it risks reinforcing existing gaps by disadvantaging marginalized social groups especially women who are in fact the majority of smallholders in the global South (Hargittai, 2018;O'Donnell & Sweetman, 2018;Schelenz & Pawelec, 2022). ICT interventions for women need to be adjusted according to their specific needs, interests and capacity.…”

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Introducing an agricultural app to urban vegetable farmers: a pilot study in Hanoi

2022

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Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) critique

Cited by 31 publications

References 78 publications

The digitally mediated lives of women MSME entrepreneurs in India: Navigating the “access‐use” conundrum

The digitally mediated lives of women MSME entrepreneurs in India: Navigating the “access‐use” conundrum

Local Languages, Third Spaces, and other High-Resource Scenarios

Introducing an agricultural app to urban vegetable farmers: a pilot study in Hanoi

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