Open Source ICT Framework for Developing Countries

Meetoo-Appavoo, Anuja; Chutoo, Anwar; Appavoo, Paramasiven; Durgahee, Begum

doi:10.1109/mts.2013.2276671

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“…The environmental and context conditions identified as mechanisms spanned across these domains. A supportive policy environment was most frequently identified (Long and Håklev, 2011;Meetoo-Appavoo et al, 2013), followed by technical factors like standards (Liu, 2014) and platform openness (Melody, 2010). Oddly, stable funding sources were mentioned only by Long and Haklev (2011).…”

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The Impact of Open Development Initiatives in Lower‐ and Middle Income Countries: A Review of the Literature

Bentley

Chib

2016

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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The purpose of this paper is to explore the field of open development in lower and middle income countries (LMIC) through a review of the literature. We examined 269 articles between 2010 and 2015, that were retrieved through keyword searches of the Scopus database and four ICT4D journals. This article adopts the pathway of effects model to analyze contributions according to inputs, mechanisms and outputs of open initiatives in LMICs. The review finds a fairly even spread of articles across the three stages of effects. Studies that disentangled reasons why or why not openness makes a difference provided the most insight to underlying mechanisms and impact of open initiatives. We found very little evidence that research within this area is concerned with the perspectives of poor and marginalized people – notably women. We therefore question the normative value of open development as a means to transform power relations. However, we argue that a more concentrated vision within this field is needed to exploit the full potential of digitally enabled openness for development.

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confidence: 99%