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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 4.261) 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 4.261) 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 4.261) 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 4.261) 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 4.261) 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 4.261) 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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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 4.261) 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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Visual imagery and the informal city: examining 360-degree imaging technologies for informal settlement representation Information Technology for Development (IF 4.261) 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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Health ICTs and transgender health equity: a research agenda Information Technology for Development (IF 4.261) 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 4.261) 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 4.261) 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 4.261) 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 4.261) 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 4.261) 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 4.261) 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 4.261) 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 4.261) 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 4.261) 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 4.261) 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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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 4.261) 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 4.261) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Ana Paula dos Santos Tavares, Luiz Antonio Joia, Marcelo Fornazin
ABSTRACT 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 use of ICT has become inevitable, many emerging countries have faced challenges in adopting ICT for the benefit of their entire population. During the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, ICT initiatives
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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 4.261) 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 4.261) 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 4.261) 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 4.261) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Nilza de Lemos Collinson, Sundeep Sahay
ABSTRACT The institutional dynamics around digital Health Information Systems implementations are subject to influences from the technological artefacts themselves or contextual conditions from the setting. These not always obvious and easily visible, appearing intrinsically hidden, may only be made perceptible through analysing patterns across a historical timeframe. Recognizing history’s potential
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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 4.261) 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 4.261) 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 4.261) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Travis L. Wagner, Vanessa L. Kitzie
ABSTRACT 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 and focus groups with 65 queer community leaders and members, focusing on their responses to identifying ICT-related barriers to health information. The second study is a participatory design project
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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 4.261) 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 4.261) 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 4.261) 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 4.261) 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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Data collection in the global south: practical, methodological, and philosophical considerations Information Technology for Development (IF 4.261) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Suzana Brown, Deepak Saxena, P. J. Wall
ABSTRACT Data collection in resource-constrained environments, particularly in the Global South, is challenging for a variety of philosophical, theoretical, methodological, and ethical reasons. Challenges may involve using research approaches designed in the Global North that are not appropriate when using data from the social and cultural contexts in the Global South. Adopting a reflective approach
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Correction Information Technology for Development (IF 4.261) Pub Date : 2023-05-10
Published in Information Technology for Development (Vol. 29, No. 4, 2023)
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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 4.261) 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 4.261) 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 4.261) 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 4.261) 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 4.261) 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
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E-formality and data justice: the individualization of street trade in Recife, Brazil Information Technology for Development (IF 4.261) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Rui Roberto Ramos, Niall Hayes, Monideepa Tarafdar
ABSTRACT Informal street trade has historically been seen by local authorities as backward, inefficient, and detrimental to urban areas and thus, has been subject to formalization policies. This paper reports on an ethnographic study of a project that sought to formalize street trade in Recife (Brazil). Street trade was presented by the City Council as hindering urban mobility, unhygienic and detrimental
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Creating cycles of prosperity with human digital development for intelligent global health Information Technology for Development (IF 4.261) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Sajda Qureshi
ABSTRACT Digital spaces offer expanded economic and social opportunities to exercise human agency. With increasing numbers of people falling into poverty, it is those same people at the margins who hold the key to global recovery. The term human digital development refers to the exercise of human agency using ICTs, in particular human interactions in cyberspace that offer new ways in which people may
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The potential of eParticipation in enlarging individual capabilities: a conceptual framework Information Technology for Development (IF 4.261) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Fernando Pinto, Marie Anne Macadar, Gabriela Viale Pereira
ABSTRACT The success of citizens’ electronic participation, or eParticipation, depends not only on mitigating digital divide challenges, but also on facing socio-organizational issues such as citizen data privacy, ICT literacy, as well as citizen awareness and motivation to participate. Despite the efforts of several researchers to present models and frameworks for empirical applications based on the
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ICT adoption, bank performance & development in Sub-Saharan Africa: a dynamic panel analysis Information Technology for Development (IF 4.261) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Ekene S. Aguegboh, Chinonso V. Agu, Vivian I. Nnetu-Okolieuwa
ABSTRACT This paper examines the effect of information and communication technology on bank performance and development in the Sub-Saharan African banking industry. We employ a generalized method of moments technique with a panel data of 35 sub-Saharan African countries on the access and use of automated teller machines, mobile money transactions, return on assets, returns on earning, and net interest
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Correction Information Technology for Development (IF 4.261) Pub Date : 2022-10-14
Published in Information Technology for Development (Vol. 28, No. 4, 2022)
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Designing ICTs for development. A Delphi study on problem framing, approach, and team composition Information Technology for Development (IF 4.261) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Stephen Smith, Rico Lie
Many ICT4D projects fail. Researchers attribute this failure partly to the mismatch between the context in which ICTs are designed and the context of their use. This study aims to understand the in...
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How do localized socio-economic platform ecosystems emerge?: a mobile platform to bring the market to villagers in Himalayan forests Information Technology for Development (IF 4.261) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Gaurav Dixit
ABSTRACT Disasters like forest fires have become a persistent challenge in Himalayan regions due to highly inflammable Pine leaves. Solutions like producing bio-briquettes require involvement of local villagers, which depends on creating socio-economic and social entrepreneurship opportunities. Our research addresses these challenges by developing and evaluating governance interventions to connect
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Towards a process framework to guide the development of ICT4D programs: a South African perspective Information Technology for Development (IF 4.261) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Lauren Lize Fouche, Sara S. (Saartjie) Grobbelaar, Wouter G. Bam
Although a large body of literature exists to support the execution of Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) initiatives, many such initiatives fail to deliver the inte...
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Does digitalization contribute to lesser income inequality? Evidence from G20 countries Information Technology for Development (IF 4.261) Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Zi Hui Yin, Chang Hwan Choi
ABSTRACT This study examines both the direct and moderating effects of digitalization on income inequality by using the panel data of Group of Twenty countries for 2002–2018. We find that digitalization alleviated income inequality and the interaction of digitalization with trade openness, and foreign direct investment helped narrow the income gap in the full sample, but the impact is heterogeneous
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E-Governance as good governance? evidence from 15 West African countries Information Technology for Development (IF 4.261) Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Patience I. Akpan-Obong, Mai P. Trinh, Charles K. Ayo, Aderonke Oni
ABSTRACT This research examines assumptions about the relationship between e-governance and governance in 15 West African countries through an analysis of the 2016 and 2018 World Governance Indicators (WGI) and E-government Development Index (EDGI), proxies for governance and e-governance, respectively. A Pearson correlation analysis demonstrates a significant positive correlation between WGI and EDGI
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Inequalities of Indonesia’s regional digital development and its association with socioeconomic characteristics: a spatial and multivariate analysis Information Technology for Development (IF 4.261) Pub Date : 2022-08-26 Fitri Kartiasih, Nachrowi Djalal Nachrowi, I Dewa Gede Karma Wisana, Dwini Handayani
ABSTRACT Drawing on multivariate, spatial agglomeration, cluster analysis, and the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression, this paper aims to reveal the spatial inequalities in the digital development of households and individuals at 460 districts/cities in Indonesia and its association with socioeconomic characteristics. The results show a significant district digital divide characterized by a decline
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Digital development, inequalities & the Sustainable Development Goals: what does ‘Leave No-One Behind’ mean for ICT4D? Information Technology for Development (IF 4.261) Pub Date : 2022-08-15 Franz-Ferdinand Rothe, Leo Van Audenhove, Jan Loisen
ABSTRACT The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) place great emphasis on inequalities and pledge to leave no-one behind. For the field of digital development, this objective presents a particular challenge. While digital technologies can be utilized to reduce certain inequalities, they are also linked to reproductive mechanisms, reinforcing existing inequalities. In the context of
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From research to action: the practice of decolonizing ICT4D Information Technology for Development (IF 4.261) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Caroline Khene, Silvia Masiero
ABSTRACT The production of knowledge in Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) research has been characterized by an ongoing shift from dominantly Western-based to Indigenous theory formulations. This editorial puts forward core concepts in the decolonization of ICT4D, arguing that these are fundamental to the creation, reading, and interpretation of ICT4D knowledge. Drawing
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Nowcasting for hunger relief: a study of promise and perils Information Technology for Development (IF 4.261) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Wayne Wobcke, Caroline Compton, Fleur Johns, Jayson Lamchek, Siti Mariyah
ABSTRACT Pitched as an aid to better development decision-making, the website HungerMap LIVE presents composite data on, and machine-learning-derived predictions of, food insecurity in 90 countries. Of its current version, this article asks the following questions: What work is HungerMap LIVE called upon to do in ICT for development (ICT4D) practice? How well is it set up to do that work? Combining
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Book review: Patching development: information politics and social change in India Information Technology for Development (IF 4.261) Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Silvia Masiero
ABSTRACT Patching Development' is a theory of change, and more specifically a theory of what leads to change in anti-poverty schemes whose enactment conditions the lives of millions of people. A software-inspired terminology, a contribution to literatures that go from public policy to information and communication technology for development (ICT4D), but first of all a concept that constructs a new
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Contract approaches for sustainable community-based access to e-service provision: a comparative study between Bangladesh and the Philippines Information Technology for Development (IF 4.261) Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Jeremy Brown, Shah Md. Safiul Hoque
ABSTRACT Public–Private Partnerships are touted as a ‘silver bullet’ to address issues surrounding the sustainability of community-based ICT projects. This paper considers the PPP’s role in the provision of sustainable services at community access sites in Bangladesh and the Philippines. A comparative analysis of current community access operations in Bangladesh and the Philippines has been made in
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The role of information and communication technology and financial development in shaping a low-carbon environment: a Belt and Road journey toward development Information Technology for Development (IF 4.261) Pub Date : 2022-07-12 Shah Saud, Abdul Haseeb, Songsheng Chen, Huiyun Li
ABSTRACT In the era of globalization, information and communication technology (ICT) plays a crucial role in economic development and environmental sustainability. ICT enables economies to interact with each other around the globe, and the current fast ICT mode makes globalization a reality in today’s technological world. However, its abrupt rise in installation and operation may increase energy demand
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Eliciting design principles using a data justice framework for participatory urban water governance observatories Information Technology for Development (IF 4.261) Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Fenna Imara Hoefsloot, Andrea Jimenez, Javier Martinez, Liliana Miranda Sara, Karin Pfeffer
ABSTRACT Participatory urban observatories can potentially improve transparency in infrastructure governance, offer opportunities for residents’ engagement, and amplify the voice of marginalized people in urban governance. While often optimistically presented as a tool to address empowerment issues in the Global South, participatory urban observatories are critiqued for reproducing urban inequalities
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Impacts of information and communication technologies on the SDGs: the case of Mayu Telecomunicaciones in rural areas of Peru Information Technology for Development (IF 4.261) Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Ignacio Prieto-Egido, Teresa Sanchez-Chaparro, Julia Urquijo-Reguera
ABSTRACT Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are considered a cross-cutting tool that contributes to meeting the global challenges set out in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, in many countries, there is still a significant connectivity gap between cities and rural areas. Using a case study approach and the Digital-for-development paradigm proposed by Heeks, this paper
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Impact of AIS success on decision-making effectiveness among SMEs in less developed countries Information Technology for Development (IF 4.261) Pub Date : 2022-07-08 Hamood Mohammed Al-Hattami
ABSTRACT Accounting information system (AIS) is becoming increasingly paramount for SMEs in order to boost decision-making effectiveness (DME). The issue is no longer whether SMEs use AIS or not, but rather about the extent of benefits and effectiveness that can be achieved from such use. This paper aims to assess how AIS success impacts DME among SMEs in less developed countries (LDCs). Specifically
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Blockchain technology prospects in transforming Ghana’s economy: a phenomenon-based approach Information Technology for Development (IF 4.261) Pub Date : 2022-07-08 Elijah Asante Boakye, Hongjiang Zhao, Bright Nana Kwame Ahia
ABSTRACT A phenomenon-based approach is used to learn more about how blockchain technology could improve Ghana’s economic sectors in terms of cost savings, efficiency, and reliability with reduced risks. With our proposed blockchain-enabled frameworks, we describe how blockchains’ Internet-of-Things (IoTs) and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) might reduce transaction, contract, and monitoring-related