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Understanding local social processes in ICT4D research Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-08 Efpraxia D. Zamani, Antonio Díaz Andrade
Published in Information Technology for Development (Vol. 30, No. 3, 2024)
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Participatory methods for indigenous community planning and development in the Colombian Amazon Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Ricardo Gomez, Mauricio Beltran, Yvette Iribe Ramirez, Ivan Morales, Carlos Rincon, Ana Monica Grismaldo
This paper discusses how integrating digital technologies such as cell phones and digital cameras with face-to-face participatory methodologies can help enhance community engagement and cultural pr...
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Indigenous knowledge and digital financial inclusion: a comparison between Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Emilie Bonhoure
M-Pesa is one leading example of mobile money services. It reveals the importance of digital financial inclusion (DFI) in countries still largely unbanked, and of institutional factors in shaping D...
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The effects of e-participation on voice and accountability: are there differences between countries? Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Zijun Mao, Weiting Zhang, Qi Zou, Wen Deng
E-participation has become a new potential factor for improving voice and accountability through the introduction of digital services and the transformation of governance. However, the path and its...
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Mobile payments and money technologies in sustainable development: a systematic literature review and computer-assisted interpretive analysis Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Serge-Lopez Wamba-Taguimdje, Jean Robert Kala Kamdjoug
Mobile Money (MM) and Mobile Payments (MP) have become levers of growth. They drive economic, social, and Sustainable Development (SD). Despite the rich literature on MM and MP, we need more synthe...
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Feminist and queer approaches to ICT4D: imagining and enacting liberation Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Sara Vannini, Ayushi Tandon, Silvia Masiero
This editorial introduces the core message and contributions of the Special Issue on Feminist and Queer Approaches to ICT4D. We contextualize our Call for Papers and the published works against the...
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Electronic commerce for development: a conceptual analysis and future research agenda for Africa Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Ransome Bawack
Despite the e-commerce boom worldwide, Africa ranks last on all indicators of e-commerce readiness, indicating that it is not sufficiently benefiting from this practice's economic, social, and huma...
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Leveraging the digital ecosystem concept for development research and practice – potentials, limitations, and ways forward Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Pascal D. Koenig
Shaping how information and communication technology (ICT) adoption supports sustainable development has become a major challenge for countries worldwide. The concept of a digital ecosystem has rec...
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‘Digital provide’ or product consumption diffusion cycle? The diffusion impact and potential of digital technology in the Global South Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Pádraig Carmody
The global digital divide is sometime presented as the primary obstacle to developmental convergence between world regions. On the other hand mobile phone and internet technology are at times seen ...
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Impact of COVID-19 on e-government: a pilot study of Poland Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-16 Narcyz Roztocki, Wojciech Strzelczyk, Heinz Roland Weistroffer
Catastrophic events like COVID-19 cause substantial material losses and significant harm to the public. However, such events may also accelerate socioeconomic developments such as increased digital...
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‘ICT Development and depopulation: exploring the effects of municipal size on citizens’ technological profiles and policy evaluation in rural Spain' Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Carolina Pontones-Rosa, Rosario Pérez-Morote, Inmaculada Alonso-Carrillo, Jesús F. Santos Peñalver
Increasing ICT availability and adoption is at the core of public policies to tackle rural depopulation. Taking as a reference the Digital Divide theory and the UTAUT model, the article shows how m...
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The role of mobile broadband in poverty alleviation: a comparison of the effects of 3G and 4G network expansion in underdeveloped regions of Indonesia Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Kasmad Ariansyah, Istiana Hermawati, Riva'atul Adaniah Wahab, Ari Cahyo Nugroho, Dida Dirgahayu, Caecilia Suprapti Dwi Takariani, Daru Nupikso
Alleviating poverty remains a significant global challenge necessitating effective interventions. While Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is widely acknowledged as a contemporary solu...
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Towards economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: is there a synergy between insurance market development and ICT diffusion? Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Sylvester Senyo Horvey, Jones Odei-Mensah
This study contributes to the literature by investigating the intervening role of information and communication technology (ICT) diffusion on insurance and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SS...
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Challenging the local logics of oppression in times of post-colonial amnesia – a study of Ugandan LGBT+ activism in digital media spaces Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Cecilia Strand
Against the backdrop of an increasingly repressive environment, the study explores to what degree five established LGBT+ organizations use self-controlled digital spaces, Twitter and Facebook, duri...
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Deconstructing big data for development (BD4D): continuities and reflections of development discourse in the age of datafication Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Michael Dokyum Kim
Increasing attention to BD4D has raised scholarly concern, reflecting on its assumptions and practices. However, little is known about the extent to which it is reflected at the institutional level...
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Investigating the effects of ICT infrastructure on Malaysia’s economic growth: Insights from the Solow growth model Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Chor Foon Tang, Muhamad Afiq Ikmal Rosidi
Using annual data from 1970 to 2020, this study examines the effects of economic leadership, information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure, and financial development on long-term ec...
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Technology adoption among Indigenous tourism stakeholders: scale development and validation Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 A. Vinodan, S. Meera
Technology adoption among indigenous tourism stakeholders is nascent and has not gained momentum due to inherent and exogenous constraints. As the role of information technology (IT) for developmen...
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Exploring the nexus of digital inclusion and environmental sustainability: insights from Cambodia Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Bora Ly, Tithsatya Dem, Romny Ly, Savoeun Sorn, Bunhorn Doeur
This research examines the confluence of digital inclusion and environmental sustainability in Cambodia, utilizing quantitative survey data from 380 participants. The study probes the effects of di...
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Decolonizing gender through ICT: a semiotic analysis of web images from Two-Spirit people websites Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Jose Ortiz
Freedom of self-expression is essential for human development. Recent studies have investigated ICT’s role in bringing visibility to activist movements working to improve the lives of gender and se...
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Deconstructing the role of ICTs in agricultural development using the diverse economies framework Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Maria Touri
ICT4D research is predominantly governed by discourses of instrumental usage of ICTs and measurable ends dictated by official policies. Particularly in agricultural production, farmers are cast as ...
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Designing a user-centric mobile-based agro advisory system for sustainable development of smallholder farming systems in the eastern Himalayas, India Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Biswajit Lahiri, Thiruchirapalli Sudarshan Anurag, Swapnali Borah, Natasha Rangsa Marak, S. T. Pavan Kumar, Sierra Manda Sangma, Aiarson Kubi Sangma, Balkho Rangsha Marak
The Interactive Information Dissemination System (IIDS), a unique mobile-based agro advisory system (MBAS), was put under study in the Design Science Research approach with 2820 farmers in Garo Hil...
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ICT tools for addressing mobility needs of Rohingya refugees with disabilities: practical challenges and solutions Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Faheem Hussain, Suzana Brown
This paper presents practical challenges and solutions developed while leveraging ICT tools to address the mobility needs of refugees with physical disabilities in Cox's Bazar Rohingya camps. The s...
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The shape of ICT4D to come Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Silvia Masiero
This editorial advances the point that a dialectic of oppression and liberation, implicit in a multiplicity of objects of Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) research, ...
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AI for social good and the corporate capture of global development Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Gianluca Iazzolino, Nicole Stremlau
This article focuses on the AI for Social Good (AI4SG) movement, which aims to leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development ...
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Digital divide reflections on regional development disparities in Türkiye Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Gülfiye Özcan Alp, Tüzin Baycan
This paper addresses the ‘Digital Divide' concerning disparities in adopting information and communication technologies (ICTs) at the regional level in Türkiye. Acknowledging the multiscale dimensi...
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Empowering through digital skills training: an empirical study of poor unemployed working-age women in India Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Tuheena Mukherjee, P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan, Arpan K. Kar
People with low or no digital literacy may not receive the digital transformation benefits. There are no-cost digital literacy programs to address this gap, whose outcomes need to be studied. Using...
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Visual imagery and the informal city: examining 360-degree imaging technologies for informal settlement representation Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Jonathan Cinnamon
Informal settlements are a feature of many cities worldwide, yet information about their social and spatial conditions is often limited to what can be obtained from external observation. Remote sen...
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Comprehending ICT for gender empowerment in an aging context: digitalization of marginalized female elderly in the Global South during COVID-19 Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Xin Pei, Zhen Troy Chen, Lina Zhang
Focusing on the low-income elderly women in the Global South, our study situates the discussion on ICT for gender empowerment in an aging context. We aim to explore the role of aging as a biologica...
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Health ICTs and transgender health equity: a research agenda Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Katherine Wyers
While research in healthcare service provision for transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people has seen rapid progress, health information communication technologies (health ICTs) research on this ...
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Digital transformation as a means to attract innovative establishments to municipalities Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Eva Hagsten, Martin Thomas Falk
This study on regional development investigates if digital transformation is a means to attract innovative establishments to municipalities. By doing so, the relationship between the availability o...
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Overcoming barriers to mHealth co-design in low- and middle-income countries: a research toolkit Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Adam Poulsen, Ian B. Hickie, Mafruha Alam, Jacob J. Crouse, Mahalakshmi Ekambareshwar, Victoria Loblay, Yun J. C. Song, Haley M. LaMonica
Mobile health (mHealth) interventions in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) have considerable potential to advance social and human development through the equitable delivery of health informa...
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Economic spillovers from cloud computing: evidence from OECD countries Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Raúl Katz, Juan Jung
The objective of this paper is to estimate the impact of cloud computing on economic performance. The analysis relies on a multi-equation model in which cloud computing is complementary with broadb...
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Smart phone usage for women’s empowerment to respond against domestic violence in Bangladesh Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Touhida Tasnima, Md Azalanshah Md Syed
The role of smart phones for women’s empowerment in the development context is increasingly being discussed in the field of Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) in rec...
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Readily available technologies in low-resource communities: a review and synthesis Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Thi Linh Phuong Dang, Arman Sadreddin, Suchit Ahuja
Socioeconomic changes in recent years have forced a shift in focus from resource abundance to resource scarcity and from top-down solutions to bottom-up, community-driven solutions. Consequently, n...
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Digital transformation for development: a human capital key or system of oppression? Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Sajda Qureshi
Digital transformation goes beyond digitalization to make radical changes to organisational models and social structures. It takes people with knowledge, skills and motivation to use ICTs to be abl...
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Reducing market separation through e-commerce: cases of Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) firms in India Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Dechen Angmo, Rajesh K. Aithal, Anand Kumar Jaiswal
Market-based solutions for poverty alleviation at the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) have been discussed extensively in the literature. Most BoP producer firms are based out of remote locations and su...
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Jamming to map creative scenes and practices Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Anja Venter
In this paper I detail my experiences undertaking an ICT4D project that aimed to better understand how under-resourced visual creatives used mobile technologies to participate in creative ‘scenes’ ...
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Women’s solidarity as feminism in action: the concept of sisterhood (sororidad) in #LasRespondonas, a Facebook group in Peru Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Illari Diez, Juan Bossio
Women in Peru are exposed on a daily basis to gender violence and exclusion. Several feminist groups have used social media to share information, debate, denounce, organize, and provide help to vic...
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‘I pretend to be an ideal woman just to keep their mouths shut’: Bangladeshi women’s contestation of abuse through social media platforms Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Hannah Klose, Lubna Jebin
The current paper examines how women in Bangladesh contest abuse within patriarchal systems of control. In many cases, women will often decide the extent to which they adopt a particular technology...
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Socio-technical design principles for a multi-stakeholder agriculture extension information system in Ethiopia Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Muluneh Atinaf, Salehu Anteneh, Mesfin Kifle
Though the importance of design knowledge is becoming critical the effort to producing prescriptive knowledge in the information and communication for development domain is limited. Such knowledge ...
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Evaluating the effect of ICT on trade and economic growth from the perspective of Eastern African belt and road countries Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Koffi Dumor, Zhao Shurong, Hafez Komla Dumor, Enock Mintah Ampaw, Edem Koffi Amouzou, Samuel Okae-Adjei, Eric Kofi Boadi
This study employs the new panel data structural gravity approach to investigate the overarching effect of ICT on bilateral trade flows and economic growth, by using a panel of 65 Belt and Road ini...
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ICT initiatives for vulnerable groups in Brazil: intended and unintended consequences during the COVID-19 pandemic Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Ana Paula dos Santos Tavares, Luiz Antonio Joia, Marcelo Fornazin
Despite the multitude of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), their successful implementation has been slow and faced more difficulties than anticipated. Although the deployment and us...
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Does digital payment induce economic growth in emerging economies? The mediating role of institutional quality, consumption expenditure, and bank credit Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Biswajit Patra, Narayan Sethi
This paper analyzes the direct and interactive effect of digital payments through institutional quality, consumption expenditure, and bank credit on economic growth for 25-member countries of the C...
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The role of digitalization in decreasing gender gap in opportunity driven entrepreneurship Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 M. Mahdi Moeini Gharagozloo, Mahdi Forghani Bajestani, Ali Moeini Gharagozloo, Amirmahmood Amini Sedeh, Fatemeh Askarzadeh
Women entrepreneurs are a promising yet under-supported group that have notable impacts on the economy. Recent societal attempts to empower female entrepreneurs and their critical role in economic ...
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Cycles of development in systems of survival with artificial intelligence: a formative research agenda Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Sajda Qureshi
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) may take over many functions performed by humans while offering new opportunities for socio-economic development. However, the unchecked ubiquitous adoption of generative Machine Learning (ML)that appears to assist humans while increasing job losses, inequities and threats to social institutions. Systems of survival are explored in the light of the synergies between
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Introducing digital health information systems in post-conflict Mozambique: a historical perspective Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Nilza de Lemos Collinson, Sundeep Sahay
The institutional dynamics around digital Health Information Systems implementations are subject to influences from the technological artefacts themselves or contextual conditions from the setting....
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Investigating the direct and indirect effects of Information and Communication Technology on economic growth in the emerging economies: role of financial development, foreign direct investment, innovation, and institutional quality Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Biswanath Behera, Anasuya Haldar, Narayan Sethi
The growing demand for digitalization in different economic sectors has garnered considerable attention from researchers to explore the effects of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on ...
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The effect of ICT on financial sector development in Africa: does regulatory quality matter? Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Isiaka Akande Raifu, Ismaila Adeleye Okunoye, Alarudeen Aminu
ABSTRACT The moderating role of regulatory quality in the relationship between ICT and financial development in Africa is investigated in this study. We employ data from 38 African countries from 2003 to 2020. For the analysis, a two-step system GMM is used. Our findings demonstrate that ICT and regulatory quality are essential for financial development. The net effect of ICT and regulatory quality
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Centering queer knowledge paradigms in designing and implementing health information and communication technologies Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Travis L. Wagner, Vanessa L. Kitzie
This paper reports on findings from two studies focused broadly on the health information practices of queer persons in the American South. The first study consists of semi-structured interviews an...
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Strategic Information Systems (SIS) implementation at a bank in an emerging economy: implications for strategic enterprise capabilities and societal development Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Dereje Mulat Ferede, Solomon Negash, Peter Meso
Strategic Information Systems (SIS) enable enterprise capability including competitive advantage and optimal performance. Attaining these strategic benefits is generally challenging for organizatio...
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Sustainable business value model in the ICT4D research agenda Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Angelica Pigola, Fernando Souza Meirelles
Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) emerges positively as a sustainable practice since several studies are focusing on these positive aspects, such as digital financi...
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Criminal factions and ICT-Mediated financial inclusion in Brazilian favelas: the role of context Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Luiz Antonio Joia, Stefano Giarelli
The city of Rio de Janeiro has the highest proportion of people living in favelas in Brazil and their residents have very restricted access to financial services, often needing to commute to other ...
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Data management system for sustainable agriculture among smallholder farmers in Tanzania: research-in-progress Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Gilbert Exaud Mushi, Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Pierre-Yves Burgi
Smallholder farmers produce about 70% of the world’s food and employ more than one billion people. They therefore have an important role to play in eradicating food insecurity and poverty among the...
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Correction Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-10
Published in Information Technology for Development (Vol. 29, No. 4, 2023)
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Data collection in the global south: practical, methodological, and philosophical considerations Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Suzana Brown, Deepak Saxena, P. J. Wall
Data collection in resource-constrained environments, particularly in the Global South, is challenging for a variety of philosophical, theoretical, methodological, and ethical reasons. Challenges m...
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Explaining the digital divide in the European Union: the complementary role of information security concerns in the social process of internet appropriation Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Giuseppe Lamberti, Jordi Lopez-Sintas, Jakkapong Sukphan
Most theoretical and empirical explanations of the generation of digital divides have been integrated into the resources and appropriation theory, which proposes a sequential model reflecting a soc...
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Digital financial services and human development: current landscape and research prospects Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Himanshu Sharma, Antonio Díaz Andrade
This study explores and analyses the implications of digital financial services (DFS) on human development from a global perspective. Informed by a systematic literature review of studies published...
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ICT4D and the Sustainable Development Goals: a road well-traveled Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Annika Andersson, Mathias Hatakka
ABSTRACT Some 35 years after the United Nations published its Brundtland report [Brundtland Commission. (1987). Our common future: Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development, Geneva, UN-Dokument A/42/427. Retrieved December 24, 2022, from https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/5987our-common-future.pdf] on the many threats our planet is under due to over- and underdevelopment
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Exploring the gender gap in mobile money awareness and use: evidence from eight low and middle income countries Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Travis W. Reynolds, Pierre E. Biscaye, C. Leigh Anderson, Caitlin O’Brien-Carelli, Joanna Keel
ABSTRACT We used three waves of Financial Inclusion Insights surveys (2013–2016) to examine gender gaps in mobile money (MM) awareness and use across eight low- and middle-income countries. After accounting for socio-demographic factors (age, marriage, literacy, education, employment, income, and financial numeracy) and other enabling factors (mobile phone, formal identification, and bank account)
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Impacts of ICT and digital finance on poverty and income inequality: a sub-national study from India Information Technology for Development (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Simontini Das, Amrita Chatterjee
ABSTRACT The present paper explores both the direct and indirect impact of ICT diffusion through the channel of digital finance on two development indicators such as poverty and income inequality at the sub-national level in India. Ordered probit estimation confirms that ICT diffusion directly reduces the persistence of poverty in both urban and rural areas. The application of ICT in the banking sector