Information and Communication Technologies for Development (IC T4D) in Indonesia: Opportunities and Challenges

Information and CommunicationTechnologies (ICTs) are now advancing quickly in emerging markets such as Indonesia. Between 80-95% of the Indonesian population already has access to mobile phones while Internet access, increasingly via mobile phones, is growing rapidly. In 2012, at least 20% of Indonesians had some form of Internet access—nearly half of who access Internet via mobile phones. The number of Indonesians online has doubled in the two years since 2010. As the uptake of mobile phones and mobile Internet has swiftly increased, so to has the use of social media. Facebook, in particular, has for many Indonesians become the Internet. There are nearly the same number of Facebook users as Internet users in Indonesia; and increasingly now for many new Internet users the rst interaction with the Internet is through accessing Facebook applications already loaded onto even basic (non-smart) mobile phones. At the same time, throughout emerging markets around the world in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, development practioners are increasingly focusing on how ICTs can be used for social and economic development purposes. Over the past decade, development organizations focusing on issues ranging from micro nance to disaster relief have increasingly begun to utilize mobile phones— and to a lesser extent, the Internet—to provide better access to services needed by marginalized and poor target groups.This study aims to provide an overview of the varied ways in which ICTs for development, or ICT4D, has taken root in Indonesia and to examine the opportunities and challenges that remain for ICT4D advocates as the variety and reach of ICTs continues to grow in Indonesia

Technologies for Development: From Innovation to Social Impact

This open access book presents 18 case studies that explore current scientific and technological efforts to address global development issues, such as poverty, from a holistic and interdisciplinary point of view, putting actual impacts at the centre of its analysis. It illustrates the use of technologies for development in various fields of research, such as humanitarian action, medical and information and communication technology, disaster risk-reduction technologies, habitat and sustainable access to energy. The authors discuss how innovative technologies, such as unmanned aerial vehicles for disaster risk reduction, crowdsourcing humanitarian data, online education and ICT-based medical technologies can have significant social impact. The book brings together the best papers of the 2016 International Conference on Technologies for Development at EPFL, Switzerland. The book explores how the gap between innovation in the global South and actual social impact can be bridged. It fosters exchange between engineers, other scientists, practitioners and policy makers active at the interface of innovation and technology and human, social, and economic development

Technologies for Development: From Innovation to Social Impact

Development Engineering; Technologies for Development; Innovation for Humanitarian Action; Emerging Countries; Developing Countries; Tech4De

Intervention or collaboration?:redesigning information and communication technologies for development

How can we design and build digital technologies to support people in poor and low-resource environments to achieve their objectives? And how can we do this inclusivelyand ethically, while considering the complexity of their living and working environ-ments? This is the central question in my research.One of the grand challenges of international development cooperation is to makedigital technologies available for social and economic development of poor regions ofthe world. To achieve this goal – often referred to as ICT4D – knowledge and tech-nologies are transferred from wealthy countries to poor regions. Nevertheless, theseefforts have often turned out unsuccessful and unsustainable, despite large budgetsand numerous projects in prestigious international development programs.Mismatch between the transferred technologies and the target environment is a re-current problem of ICT4D projects. Improvement can be achieved, for example, byinvolving end-users in the design process. International development organizationsare aware of this, and terms like "co-creation", "participation" and "user-oriented de-sign" have nowadays become part of the international development discourse. How-ever,realco-creation and user-centered design are incompatible with unidirectionaltransfer of technologies and knowledge (this is how ICT4D is commonly organized,in conventional international development). Moreover, the term participation becomesmeaningless, in the light of externally formulated development goals.One key question to ask is:what do the envisaged users want?Remarkably, many ICT4Dprojects, programs and policies do not really ask and (field) investigate this question,which can only be answered by extensive research on-the-ground.This thesis describes the search for and the design of an alternative approach toICT4D. Ten years of field and action research with partners in Mali, Burkina Faso, andGhana have led to a collaborative, iterative and adaptive approach, dubbed "ICT4D3.0". What is novel of this alternative approach and how does it answer the centralquestion?First of all, ICT4D3.0is a practical approach for critical investigation and action.It consists of a reconfigurable framework that guides the design and development ofinformation systems, bridging the knowledge gap between developers and users tounlock and integrate different domains of (global, local, indigenous, academic, non-academic) knowledge. It targets complex, resource-constrained environments wheremany (for the ICT developers and researchers) unfamiliar conditions or obstacles mayexist. It fosters innovative capacity and learning in action, bringing together peoplewith different backgrounds and perspectives in trans-disciplinary and multiculturalteams. It is socio-technical, result-oriented, focused on the objectives of the stakeholders ers and the requirements of their livelihoods. This approach has been validated invarious different contexts, by users, ICT developers, practitioners and students.Second, ICT4D3.0contributes to a theoretical understanding of ICT4D as a processof networked innovation in complex (adaptive) systems. The underlying idea is thatknowledge sharing and diffusion of innovations are complex (non-linear) dynamicprocesses that evolve and propagate through social networks in rather unpredictableways, whereby innovation works out differently, depending on context, and wherebycontextual (e.g. social, cultural, environmental, political) factors play an important role,and have to be considered. This theoretical framework explains the effectiveness of acollaborative, iterative, adaptative approach in ICT4D.Third, ICT4D3.0is built on ethical principles. When reflecting on the meaningand purpose of digital development, it is clear that digital development is not onlya question of technology and practice, and collaboration is more than a prerequisitefor successful technological innovation and long-term sustainability: collaboration isa fundamental human, ethical value. Therefore, as a reflective practitioner, one hasto ask oneself whose interests one is actually looking after, which goals one is tryingto achieve, where they come from, how power and political issues play a role andwhich core values are at stake. This makes ICT4D3.0into a democratic process of di-alogue and deliberation, in which all voices are heard, in which the local context andcomplexity are central, and in which development goals are determined by the usersthemselves and not imposed from outside. In this light, the approach proposed in thisthesis takes a value position and can be considered a decolonial approach, striving fordemocracy, emancipation, autonomy and social and economic betterment.Field experience shows that ICT4D can be a meaningful, collaborative, networkedprocess of knowledge sharing, driven by local initiatives, realizing change for the better,in a complex world

Intervention or Collaboration?:Rethinking Information and Communication Technologies for Development

Over the past decades information system developers and knowledge engineers in ICT projects in wealthy regions of the world have come to realize that technical work can only be successful when situated in a broader organizational context. However, for low-resource environments (or example rural Africa), where contextual embedding is even more demanding given the complexity of these environments, practical, context-oriented methodologies how to "do" information systems engineering are still lacking. This book gives a basic but thorough insight how to develop information systems and services for people in low resource environments, from a socio-technical, information systems engineering perspective, presenting field-validated methods that cover the complete lifecycle of information systems engineering, with emphasis on context analysis, needs assessment, use case and requirements analysis and (business) sustainability analysis. Since technical development does not go without critical reflection, this book also investigates which (tacit) assumptions affect the way technologies are implemented in poor, low-resource environments. Linking collaborative sociotechnical development with theories of complexity and social networks of innovation, this book offers a reflective and critical approach to information and communication technologies for development

Psychological foundations of innovative technologies for development of personality

Наведено комплект документів, відкритого наказом МОН України № 404 від 9.04.2015 р. експерименту всеукраїнського рівня на базі Києво-Печерського ліцею № 171 «Лідер», під науковим керівництвом Інституту психології імені Г.С. Костюка НАПН України (Заявка на проведення дослідно-експериментальної роботи. Програма дослідно-експериментальної роботи. Наказ МОН.).Shows a set of documents, which is open by order of MES of Ukraine (number 404 of 04/09/2015) experiment of nationwide level - on the basis of the Kiev-Pechersk lyceum № 171 "Leader", under the guidance of the Institute of Psychology named after GS Kostiuk NAPS of Ukraine (Application of the experimental work. The program of the experimental work. Order of MES.)

Connecting ICTs to development: The IDRC experience

Book ReviewAlthough the editors speciªcally deny that this book is a historical account, it only narrowly escapes that label. The book does attempt to consolidate some 15 years of International Development Research Centre (IDRC)–sponsored action research on ICT intervention projects undertaken in three main global regions, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and Asia. This “Herculean” (the editors’ words) effort does give the book the semblance of an epic, engrossing, all-encompassing exposition of the key concerns, actors, and events relevant to the IDRC’s ICT4D community. The book reports on the work of an IDRC-created thematic grouping identified as “Information and Communications Technologies for Development” (ICT4D), an acronym which has since gained widespread appeal in the academic research community (Heeks, 2006)