Design and Build OLAP Business Intelligence for Village Sustainable Development Planning

The Indonesian government-year period 2014–2019, endorsed the National Medium Term Development Plan (RPJMN) with the concept of building Indonesia from the rural area. One of the RPJMN focus is the development of rural and border areas brings a new paradigm for the village development. This village development paradigm change requires the support of village information system. Village Information System and Rural Areas (SIDeKa) has developed and implemented in dozens of villages in the some district as a pilot project. The transaction data and information in the village have captured accurately using SIDeKa. These data and information becoming crucial sources for development planning in the next phase. This paper describe design and build OLAP Business Intelligence for development planning at village and supra village (district) that integrates SIDeKa’s data from all villages and aligns the development planning with the vision, mission, and objectives of rural development. This paper presents model/architecture for ETL, star schema, and new measures that capture spatial and temporal dimensions. OLAP Business Intelligence will be useful for Village Sustainable Development Planning

ICTs for agroecology: shifting agricultural ICT4D from “I” to “C”

The urgent need for inclusive and sustainable agriculture has seen transition towards holistic, situated and participatory approaches to agricultural development such as agroecology. In this paper we use observations drawn from an ethnographic action research project to examine the implications of such approaches on ICT design and implementation strategy. We suggest that ICTs designed for sustainable agriculture need to shift their emphasis from packaging and transmitting information towards facilitating communication and sharing of practice, incorporating diverse knowledge paradigms and collective, social and situated forms of knowing and learning

Actor-networks and “practices” of development: impact of a weather information system in West Bengal

The urgent need for inclusive and sustainable agriculture has seen transition towards holistic, situated and participatory approaches to agricultural development such as agroecology. In this paper we use observations drawn from an ethnographic action research project to examine the implications of such approaches on ICT design and implementation strategy. We suggest that ICTs designed for sustainable agriculture need to shift their emphasis from packaging and transmitting information towards facilitating communication and sharing of practice, incorporating diverse knowledge paradigms and collective, social and situated forms of knowing and learning

Perceived Antecedents to The Success of Impact Sourcing in Bangladesh

Impact sourcing (ImS) has been identified as an emergent component of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) which relates to the practice of developing IT skills for marginalised communities. Also known as socially responsible outsourcing, the core element of ImS is to train and employ people from disadvantaged background in expediting socioeconomic development. While the positive influence of ImS has been significantly noticed in countries such as India, Kenya and Nepal, there has not been any appropriate initiatives noticed in one of the most promising nations, Bangladesh. With adequate IT and telecommunication foundation followed by strong governmental support, Bangladesh has the potential to flourish in ImS sector and make significant socioeconomic development for its people. This research in progress paper proposes a conceptual framework to understand the perceived antecedents for adopting ImS undertakings in Bangladesh and provide valuable insight to the government and researchers/practitioners for employing effective ICT based social development strategies

Implications of regulatory policy for building secure agile software in Nigeria: A grounded theory

Nigeria is ranked second worldwide, after India, in reported incidences of cyberattacks. Attackers usually exploit vulnerabilities in software which may not have adequately considered security features during the development process. Agile methods have the potential to increase productivity and ensure faster delivery of software, although they tend to neglect non-functional requirements such as security. The implementation of government policies, such as the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation (NDPR) Act 2019, impacts the security activities carried out by agile teams. Despite its significance, there is a paucity of research on security issues especially in the Agile Software Development (ASD) domain. To address this gap, a grounded theory study was conducted with 15 agile software practitioners in Nigeria. Based on our analysis of the interview transcripts, we developed a grounded theory of the security challenges confronting agile practitioners. The four challenges identified were (a) a lack of collaboration betweensecurity and agile teams; (b) the tendency to use foreign software hosting companies; (c) a poor cybersecurity culture; and (d) the high cost of building secure agile software. We used these challenges to identify gaps within the existing secure ASD and found a lack of indigenous software hosting companies in Nigeria. Our study also revealed tensions between the Nigerian regulatory environment and agile software developers' compliance. While practitioners acknowledged the government's efforts, there were concerns about the practicality of implementing such legislation. We recommend government action to increase awareness of local software hosting companies' capabilities, and closer collaboration between agile and security teams. Thus, the novel contribution of this article is the development of the policy adherence challenges (PAC) model

Human-Computer Interaction for Development: A knowledge mobilisation framework

Human-computer interaction for development (HCI4D) is an interdisciplinary field aimed at understanding and designing technologies for under-served, under-resourced, and under-represented populations around the world. The interdisciplinary nature complicates knowledge transfer and articulation between the disciplines contributing to the HCI4D domain with the consequence that researchers in one sub-domain do not always build on the extant theoretical and methodological progress in other sub-domains. The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework for HCI4D that could facilitate a better understanding of this domain, for knowledge mobilisation and articulation between researchers in HCI4D and the related field of information and communication technology for development (ICT4D). Previous studies have presented an overview of the HCI4D field in terms of the geographies it covers, technologies it targets, and its varied epistemological and methodological underpinnings. This paper builds on those methodologies and findings to conduct a systematic literature review which revisits the domain questions, thus, the core issues and topics (why), the phenomenon of interest (what) and the research methods (how). A comparison of the findings from three seminal HCI4D papers led to the identification of three core issues (motor themes) namely, context, design and development. Based on Ward’s idea of a knowledge mobilisation framework, the findings from the systematic literature review are then synthesised and presented as a framework which comprises the core issues, recurring themes and the salient elements for each of the domain questions. The contribution is a knowledge mobilisation framework to enrich discussions on positioning HCI4D as research field

COMMUNITY ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF MICRO AND SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES: A CASE STUDY IN ALAMENDAH TOURISM VILLAGE

This research on Community Economic Empowerment in Alamendah Tourism Village is to find out if there are tourist villages that are able to maintain economic balance. This Alamendah Tourism Village makes more use of its natural potential, but economic resources through the MSME sector are also important in this economic empowerment. The development of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) is anticipated to be able to maintain the economic equilibrium of a community as a result of the construction of a tourism village. This study seeks to determine the outcomes of community economic empowerment in Alamendah Tourism Village through the development of MSMEs. This study employs a qualitative methodology with descriptive methods. The results of the study show that the community's economic empowerment in the Alamendah tourism village through MSMEs can be increased by encouraging local entrepreneurship, providing easy access to financing, improving product quality, strengthening marketing and promotion, and actively involving the community. With the synergy of local business actors, village government, NGOs and related parties, tourism villages can achieve sustainable economic growth, improve people's welfare, and create an inclusive and competitive local economy

COMMUNITY ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF MICRO AND SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES: A CASE STUDY IN ALAMENDAH TOURISM VILLAGE

This research on Community Economic Empowerment in Alamendah Tourism Village is to find out if there are tourist villages that are able to maintain economic balance. This Alamendah Tourism Village makes more use of its natural potential, but economic resources through the MSME sector are also important in this economic empowerment. The development of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) is anticipated to be able to maintain the economic equilibrium of a community as a result of the construction of a tourism village. This study seeks to determine the outcomes of community economic empowerment in Alamendah Tourism Village through the development of MSMEs. This study employs a qualitative methodology with descriptive methods. The results of the study show that the community's economic empowerment in the Alamendah tourism village through MSMEs can be increased by encouraging local entrepreneurship, providing easy access to financing, improving product quality, strengthening marketing and promotion, and actively involving the community. With the synergy of local business actors, village government, NGOs and related parties, tourism villages can achieve sustainable economic growth, improve people's welfare, and create an inclusive and competitive local economy

Assessing mobile phone use by pregnant women in Nigeria: a capability perspective

This paper explores the use of mobile phones to access maternal health care in sub‐Saharan Africa and whether it enhances capability and human development. Analysing focus groups and interviews on mobile phone uses by pregnant women in Nigeria based on the Technology Augmented Capability Approach, we show that the mobile phone as a technical object facilitates three broad capabilities for pregnant women, namely, (a) enhances their voice and choice to push for health care quality, (b) enhances their access to emergency services while maintaining entrepreneurial activities, and (c) enhances their health literacy and social connectedness. However, personal, social, and environmental factors influence the conversion of the use of the mobile phone into capabilities by the pregnant women