Impact of Information Society Research in the Global South

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 findin...

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Những tác giả chính: Chib, Arul, May, Julian, Barrantes, Roxana
Định dạng: Sách
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: Springer 2015
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Truy cập trực tuyến:https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/56840
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Tóm tắt: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 actors who 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 representatives of civil society. This volume illustrates this extremely well...