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The world is changing and new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are powerful contributors to this change. Society is moving from an industrial model with vertical hierarchical...
Biotechnology development faces many of the same intellectual property issues as computer science. However, biotechnology research organizations in the developing world often lack the resources to...
Full title: Can open ICT4D shape future of rural education? Innovations in Sri Lanka Telecenters
150 Rural Telecenters of Sri Lanka and Shilpa Sayura have innovated rural education development by...
Full title: Centering the Knowledge Peripheries through Open Access: Implications for future research and discourse on ICT for Development.
Open Access (OA), or free online access, to scholarly and...
Incumbent resistance: The current trend of ICT policy and IP laws are biased against openness. While the original development of the Internet was founded on libertarian principles that embraced...
Full title: The End-User is the Message: Challenging the Concept of Technology Appropriation in the Field of ICT4D
Based on empirical research on the use of traditional and new ICTs by social...
The following is a listserv thread on the OPEN ICT4D document. The emails are placed in order of recency (scroll to the bottom for the first email).
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Full title: Connecting learning to life and life to learning: is there a role for technology?
Educators and learners in Africa are appropriating and domesticating information and communication...
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Before we can move to the concept of Open ICT4D, it is helpful to place it in the context of a few recent trends. The first trend is the emergence of a new generation of information and...
For analytical purposes, it is useful to delineate the three central dimensions that determine the relative openness of a good: Who produces the good (and how)? Who owns the good? Who can access...
New ICTs pose a challenge to the standard approaches to development. New ICTs and their potentials for open (transparent, participatory and collaborative) activities invite the possibilities for a...
Emerging Research Issues
Challenges/Threats to Open ICT4D
The Darkside of Open ICT4D
Emerging Questions
As the goal of this document is to generate new questions rather than answer old ones, we conclude with a few of questions that have emerged throughout our exploration of Open ICT4D:
What are the...
Note that the order of the following issues in no way reflects relative importance.
Education: If a central area of future ICT4D activities is based on open activities involving sharing,...
Full title: From ICT4D to Cognitive Justice: Framing Research for Open Development
During the era of the New World Information and Communications Order (NWICO), Tichenor et al. advanced the...
Full title: From Openness to Participation – A Movement from Technology to Development Discourse
Access, participation and collaboration are cornerstones of development thought. Given their basic...
New technologies and openness principles allow for new possibilities for who can access, use, make and distribute information, knowledge and culture – all of which are core inputs into human...
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Reflections for the Discussions on Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) for Human Development, Growth and Poverty Reduction, By Ineke Buskens
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The network society is built directly upon the physical infrastructure of the networks (both Internet and mobile phone which can overlap), dominated by the ultimate network of networks - the...
The logical design (the code law that operates the network of nodes and ends) of the Internet is what defines how the Internet works. The Internet was originally designed without any internal...
The content layer consists of a series of activities that happen on top of Layers 0 & 1. These are these are the empirical domains of Open ICT4D activities:
Open Source Software
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Full title: Open Minds: Lessons on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development from West Africa
There are many people in the world who believe that intellectual property protection inevitably...
BarCamp
BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants. The first BarCamps focused on...
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Full title: Meta-Level Institutions Impacting ICT Innovation in Developing Economies
Introduction
The present economy is informational, based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)...
Full title: Negotiating openness across science, ICTs and participatory development: Lessons from the AfricaAdapt network
In recent years, emergent forms of decentralized, open collaboration...
Against Transparency: The perils of openness in government
The Revolution Will Be Twittered
It's too easy to call the weekend's activities the first revolution that was Twittered, but when...
These two trends allow for a new range of potential social and creative activities. We discuss four, above and beyond what mobiles with SMS and the Internet with Web1.0 technologies provide (i.e.,...
Open business models are an approach that companies can take to let more external ideas and technology flow in and more internal knowledge flow out (Chesbrough, 2007). Increasingly firms are...
Open capital refers to new micro-scale economic systems which utilize the Internet to provide greatly increased means for the flow of capital between individuals and small businesses for...
This paper revisits research data from a project called Finding a Voice (FaV) where we experimented with participatory (or open) content creation activities across 15 sites in Asia (India,...
Workshop Dates: May 6&7, 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...
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The open education movement is founded on the established tradition of sharing good ideas with fellow educators and the collaborative, interactive culture of the Internet. It is built on the belief...
Open Government consists of a range of activities including information provision to various forms of participation, interaction and collaboration. Note that we do not include here the ideas of...
The concept of Open Health operates at several levels: (1) open sharing and collaboration amongst health professionals to enable patients and their care providers to have access to vital and...
Another high-level way to conceptualise the relationship between openness, new ICTs and human development is through Sen’s notion of development as the expansion of capabilities (Sen, 2001). From...
To the extent that our definition of openness is informed by the concept of egalitarianism, it exposes new spaces to advance feminist and social justice movements within the information society....
Openness as we have defined it is not guaranteed; rather, it is the outcome of a combination of policy choices interacting with already existing institutional arrangements and network...
Welcome. This wiki is an attempt to collaboratively build the theoretical and empirical understanding of Openness and its applicability to the field of human development, and ICT4D in general. It...
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The study of e-Government has a normative orientation. As researchers, we seek to influence policy or practice in the ultimate service of of development goals. Heeks and Bailur's...
We have already briefly alluded to the relevance of openness to ICT4D at this point in time. Here we spell out the argument in more detail. There are two central reasons why an Open ICT4D paradigm,...
New information and communication technologies promise an era of unprecedented change for developing countries, particularly in terms of how they can open up new channels of connectivity and...
Science - the human endeavour to learn about how everything from the tiny microbe to the all-encompassing universe works - is a collective enterprise where everyone builds on what everyone else has...
Science is fundamentally a communal activity with sharing as a central norm; good research is almost always based on others’ results and theories and should contribute back to the community as...
It is not common knowledge, in light of the market dominance of corporations such as IBM and Microsoft that the core of the Internet is and has always been built on both the concept of openness (as...
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The Yin and Yang of Open
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Full title: PROMISES AND PITFALLS OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE BUSINESS IN FOSTERING SUSTAINABILITY IN ICT4D PROJECTS
While the intention of development cooperation projects is long term impact and...
To facilitate our understanding of openness, it is helpful to consider it in light of other related terms. There is a useful typology of goods: pure public, commons, club and private goods (see...
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The social environment provides the social, economic and legal environment in which the technological layers operate. We restrict our discussion to two highly relevant components of the social...
In this section we explore the range of technological hardware and content that constitute the digital environment. To guide the discussion of the technological layers, we adapt the model pioneered...
Full title: CREATING SPACE FOR INNOVATION – THE CASE OF MOBILE TELEPHONY IN MSEs IN GHANA
Innovation is the cornerstone of competitiveness. Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) play a key role in...
The openness paradigm magnifies access and use of resources that can be mobilised for a wide range of activities, good as well as bad. This is no surprise in the world of ICTs as they amplify the...
Full title: The internet and social capital: experiences of openness in remote and rural areas in least developed economies
There is considerable variation in the ways ICT is becoming embedded in...
Creativity and innovation are essential ingredients for the development of human society. Scientific, economic and social evolution requires the orchestrated efforts of many intellectuals, working...
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One defining feature of the 21st Century is the growing diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) worldwide. These are not only changing the world but also changing features and...
Full title: Transparency and Development:Ethical Consumption and Economic Development through Web 2.0 and the Internet of
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Contemporary capitalism conceals the histories and geographies of...
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Open ICT4D is the use of new ICTs to engage in “open” processes to achieve development gains. More specifically, open ICT4D is a way of organizing social activities for development benefits...
The term openness, or open, is often applied as a descriptive adjective appended in front of a variety of structures (e.g., open government, open architecture, open society) and activities/products...
We do not include in the definition of openness the concepts of property (proprietary and non-proprietary), public goods or the commons. An alternative approach to defining openness would be one...
“Intuitively, these problems seem too fundamental to be seriously affected by the networked information economy – what has Wikipedia got to do with the 49 percent of the population of Congo...
Full title: The Prospects and Challenges for Women Empowerment through Open ICT4D in Pakistan
The proliferation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) such as telephones, radio,...
