Sustainable rural ICT project management practice for developing countries: investigating the Dwesa and RUMEP projects

Pade-Khene, Caroline; Mallinson, Brenda; Sewry, David

doi:10.1080/02681102.2011.568222

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“…(Parkinson, 2005) and Coetzee's work on code sprints (Coetzee, 2010). Examples of currently running ICT4D projects that informed this study include the work of the Meraka Institute (Coetzee, 2010), the Siyavula organisation and Free High School Science Textbook (FHSST) project 1 , and the projects studied by Pade-Khene (et al, 2011). A new term, Community Informatics (CI), has also found its way into literature, and provides another avenue to examples of the developmental character of Informatics 2 .…”

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“…Coetzee (2010) aims towards increasing economic freedom by supporting start-ups in the software development industry. The Dwesa project, as described by Pade-Khene (et al, 2011), aims towards increasing economic freedom through the use of e-commerce-driven tourism. The project discussed in our case study aims towards increasing social freedom through greater access to information and an improved level of academic syllabus delivery.…”

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“…See Table 1 in section 3.3 for a summary of Leem's model and how it relates to Sen. We start to see an ICT4D project as something that, in itself, develops over time towards sustainability, while developing other entities. Each development project, according to the Leem model, grows through stages of maturity (towards sustainability) and is not necessarily cyclic in nature, contrasting it with other literary views of sustainability (Pade-Khene et al,2011).…”

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This article studies technology driven, development focused initiatives [ICT4D projects] at a community level in South Africa. This study forms part of the existing debate on ICT4D project success, and suggests answers towards accelerating ICT4D projects' growth towards maturity and sustainability. Concerns that receive attention include the level of ownership and control taken by members of benefiting local communities in ICT4D projects, the level of social embeddedness of ICT4D projects, and a revision of the concept of sustainability within the ICT4D context. A detailed case study that compares two similar ICT4D projects influencing four local communities, focusing on educational institutions within the communities in South Africa, provides the foundation for this article.Adjustments are made to the Five Stages Maturity Model for ICT projects (Leem et al., 2008) and then used to guide our critical discussion regarding each community's relationship with the ICT4D projects currently running within each society, and how these relationships can be matured and sustained. Findings include a discussion of the importance of direct and diffused increases in freedom resulting from an ICT4D project and the often discounted role of recognition, celebration of achievements within the local community, and media involvement in the maturity, and hence sustainability, of ICT4D projects.

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“…Development is considered to be sustainable in the intersection of those three spheres (e.g., The World Bank Group [WB], 2001). Even though that visualization is widely used, it is not always feasible (e.g., Pade-Khene, Mallinson, & Sewry, 2011). In actual projects, sustainability is often seen as self-sustainability, as a continuation of a project's benefits and effects after the project itself has ended (e.g., The Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission [FELM], 2009;Pade-Khene, Mallinson, & Sewry, 2011;MoFA, 2013).…”

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“…Even though that visualization is widely used, it is not always feasible (e.g., Pade-Khene, Mallinson, & Sewry, 2011). In actual projects, sustainability is often seen as self-sustainability, as a continuation of a project's benefits and effects after the project itself has ended (e.g., The Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission [FELM], 2009;Pade-Khene, Mallinson, & Sewry, 2011;MoFA, 2013). Self-sustainability is vital but it leads easily to a situation where designers prioritize economic aspects first, sociocultural aspects next, while environmental aspects are left last.…”

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Development Projects and ICT: A Review of Non‐Technical Aspects

Kemppainen

Tedre

Sutinen

2014

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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The role of information and communication technology (ICT) in international development co-operation (IDC) is tightly linked with international political agenda. Currently, international development co-operation emphasizes three concepts: sustainable development, international human rights, and millennium development goals. This article presents to IT professionals six non-technical aspects for improving ICT oriented IDC projects. Firstly, those ICT projects should be aligned with internationally agreed political agenda. Secondly, they should cohere with internationally agreed development goals. Thirdly, their design should recognize the political and legal context of the host country. Fourthly, their design and implementation have to follow donor guidelines derived from commonly agreed good practices of IDC project management and design-even when the contextual design tools of ICT for development (ICT4D) research are of limited use with the structured design approaches of IDC. Fifthly, ICT oriented IDC projects should have appropriate indicators for their formative and summative evaluation. Sixthly, IT professionals should stay up-to-date with constantly developing ICT and evolving IDC. The presented non-technical aspects of IDC projects are derived from the central concepts and consensuses of IDC as well as from an analysis of the relevant literature, and the six aspects are reflected on our fourteen years of field work in IDC projects in the least developed countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. We argue that IT professionals are more competent for IDC projects when their technical expertise is complemented with the presented aspects.

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The Rural ICT Comprehensive Evaluation Framework: Implementing the First Domain, the Baseline Study Process

Pade-Khene

Sewry

2012

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ICTs are continuously emerging as key tools to support development activities. However, with the growing implementation of such technology requires the need to account for such implementations and assess the need, process, outcome and impact of ICT projects in developing countries. Most evaluations in ICT4D tend to focus on impact assessment, yet assessing the impact of a project relies on interdependent assessments that should be conducted throughout the life of a project; especially to gauge the actual contribution of an ICT project to specified impact in a rural community. This paper presents a Rural ICT Comprehensive Evaluation Framework (RICT-CEF), which encompasses the key domains of evaluation that should be applied throughout the progression of an ICT for development project. The scope of this paper, specifically elaborates on the first two stages of the framework: 1) The Overall Evaluation Plan, and 2) The Baseline Study. These stages are explored in the Siyakhula Living Lab, an ICT4D project in South Africa, to reveal the shortcomings and suitability of the framework through lessons learned, and contribute to the continuous revision of the RICT-CEF.

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Sustainable rural ICT project management practice for developing countries: investigating the Dwesa and RUMEP projects

Cited by 55 publications

References 7 publications

Communities in control of their own integrated technology development processes

Communities in control of their own integrated technology development processes

Development Projects and ICT: A Review of Non‐Technical Aspects

The Rural ICT Comprehensive Evaluation Framework: Implementing the First Domain, the Baseline Study Process

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