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Impact of Information Society Research in the Global South

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The contributors to this volume make a crucial and forceful point. There are numerous theories and methodologies that can be used to yield research findings about the potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to make a positive difference in people’s lives. Whether the findings in any particular research project actually contribute in this way depends on multiple factors, some
affecting researchers themselves, others on whether actors beyond university-based research communities are interested and have the resources that are necessary for learning. It is not only researchers for whom capacity building is essential. It is essential that all the actorswho have an interest in whether digital ICTs are produced and used in beneficial ways have the capacity to learn about how they can make a difference in people’s lives. The need to build capacity for learning from a range of types of evidence developed by both researchers and practitioners applies as much to government actors as it does to those in the private sector and representativ es of civil society. This volume illustrates this extremely well.
The SIRCA II (Strengthening Information Societies Research Capacity Alliance) programme involved researchers in research capacity building focusing on ICTs in contemporary information societies in the African, Asian and Latin American regions. The first part of the volume is concerned with research on ‘impact’; the second sets out howresearch in the global South is contributing to our understanding
of the information societies in these regions. The results of this second SIRCA programme offer varied reflections on how learning has accumulated within this community of researchers. In the opening chapter, Arul Chib (‘Research on impact of the information society in the Global South: An introduction to SIRCA’) says that ‘impact, even during the process of evaluation of the proposals [for SIRCA II], was difficult to define, describe, or agree upon, leading to contested debate’. There is a multiplicity of voices, methodologies and theoretical traditions in the interdisciplinary fields of research that investigate the role of ICTs ‘in’, ‘for’, and sometimes ‘and’ development. This volume includes many illustrations of the richness of approaches within the social sciences. In this case, there is also an emphasis on critically evaluating what developmentmeans for those with an interest in the social, economic, political or cultural outcomes that may be expected when ICTs are involved

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

302,23 Imp

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Singapore : Springer Science Business Media., 2015

Deskripsi Fisik

x, 291 hlm.

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9789812873811

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302.23

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Tipe Media

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TEKNOLOGI INFORMASI
MEDIA SOSIAL

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