NEW - Conference Dates: March 25-26, 2010
This is a collaborative online space dedicated to the forthcoming edited volume on Open Development through the application of ICTs. It is also the online resource for the upcoming IDRC-sponsored expert meeting on "Open Development: Technological, organizational and social innovations transforming the developing world" to be held in Ottawa, Canada on March 25-26, 2010.
Subject to further peer review, a subset of papers (selected from a recent Call for Papers) will be published in an edited volume through a commercial publisher. Quality permitting, a select few will be nominated for further peer review and potential publication in the open journal Information Technologies and International Development. Papers that are not included in the book or journal will be included in an open access working paper series.
Below you will find links to the abstracts selected from the Call for Papers:
Open content creation: the issues of voice and the challenges of listening
Openness and developmental outcomes in applied e-Government
Meta-Level Institutions Impacting ICT Innovation in Developing Economies
The Prospects and Challenges for Women Empowerment through Open ICT4D in Pakistan
Openness in Latin America and the problem of identification
PROMISES AND PITFALLS OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE BUSINESS IN FOSTERING SUSTAINABILITY IN ICT4D PROJECTS
Open Minds: Lessons on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development from West Africa
Towards Open Government in Morocco: Fez Empirical Case
The Trans-lingual Commons: Translating Open Content
Connecting learning to life and life to learning: is there a role for technology?
From Openness to Participation – A Movement from Technology to Development Discourse
CAMBIA and OSDD: Spreading Open Source Biotechnology
Can open ICT4D shape future of rural education? Innovations in Sri Lanka Telecenters
CREATING SPACE FOR INNOVATION – THE CASE OF MOBILE TELEPHONY IN MSEs IN GHANA
From ICT4D to Cognitive Justice: Framing Research for Open Development
Related resources:
Article on transparency and governance by Lawrence Lessig
http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/against-transparency
