Impact of Public Access to ICT (IPAI) / Impact de l’accès public aux TIC (IAPT)
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Community Impact of Public Access to ICT (IPAI)
For the poor in developing countries, being able to access and use information and communication technologies (ICTs) can be life-changing. Impact of Public Access to ICTs was a large project that sought to understand the impact of places like telecentres, libraries, or Internet cafés on the users’ well-being. The objective was to enhance knowledge and provide new data on the impact these public places have on peoples’ lives in the developing world.
The research was multidisciplinary and encouraged up-and-coming researchers in developing countries to contribute to the project’s findings. IPAI supported high-quality research around the globe while building the capacity of researchers.
Impact de l’accès public aux TIC (IAPT)
Le fait d’avoir accès aux technologies de l’information et de la communication (TIC) et de pouvoir les utiliser peut transformer la vie des citoyens pauvres des pays en développement. Ce vaste projet sur l’impact de l’accès public aux TIC visait à comprendre l’incidence d’endroits comme les télécentres, les bibliothèques et les cybercafés sur le bien-être de leurs utilisateurs. Le but ? Enrichir les connaissances et fournir de nouvelles données sur l’incidence qu’ont ces lieux publics sur les conditions de vie des gens dans les pays en développement. Ce projet pluridisciplinaire avait pour objectif d’encourager des chercheurs prometteurs dans les pays en développement à contribuer aux constatations du projet. IAPT a subventionné des recherches de grande qualité partout dans le monde tout en renforçant les capacités des chercheurs.
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Item Aplicación de RQ+ 4 Co-Pro(2024) McLean, Robert; Carden, Fred; Aiken, Alice; Bray, Judy; Cassidy, ChristineRQ+ 4 Co-Pro puede apoyar el diseño, la gestión y la evaluación de la coproducción en la investigación. Puede utilizarse en cualquier fase del ciclo de vida de la coproducción.Item Application de RQ+ 4 Co-Pro(2024) McLean, Robert; Carden, Fred; Aiken, Alice; Bray, Judy; Cassidy, ChristineRQ+ 4 Co-Pro peut soutenir la conception, la gestion et l’évaluation de la coproduction de recherche. Le cadre s’applique à chaque stade du cycle de vie de la coproduction. Ce document présente les cas d’application dans une infographie.Item Applying RQ+ 4 Co-Pro(2024) McLean, Robert; Carden, Fred; Aiken, Alice; Bray, Judy; Cassidy, ChristineRQ+ 4 Co-Pro can support the design, management and evaluation of research co-production. It can be used at any stage of the co-production life-cyle. This document presents the RQ+ 4 Co-Pro use cases in an infographic.Item Calidad de investigación plus para la coproducción (RQ+ 4 Co-Pro) : instrumento de evaluación - una herramienta práctica y holística para evaluar la calidad de la coproducción de investigación(2024) McLean, Robert; Carden, Fred; Aiken, Alice; Bray, Judy; Cassidy, ChristineEste documento presenta el instrumento de evaluación RQ+ 4 Co-Pro. El instrumento de evaluación proporciona orientación, descriptores detallados, tablas de registro e incluye rúbricas que facilitarán el uso del marco RQ+ 4 Co-Pro en una evaluación de coproducción de investigación. Se trata de una herramienta de libre acceso que los usuarios pueden adaptar a sus objetivos y contextos.Item Calidad de investigación plus para la coproducción : el marco(2024) McLean, Robert; Carden, Fred; Aiken, Alice; Bray, Judy; Cassidy, ChristineRQ+ 4 Co-Pro es un enfoque para definir y evaluar la calidad de la coproducción. Permite adaptarla al contexto, los valores y el propósito. Puede apoyar la planificación, la gestión y el aprendizaje a lo largo del ciclo de vida de un proyecto, programa u organización de coproducción. Este documento presenta el marco RQ+ 4 Co-Pro en una infografía.Item Compendium on impact assessment of ICT-for-development projects(Technology and Social Change Group (TASCHA), University of Washington, Seattle, WA, US, 2009) Heeks, Richard; Molla, AlemayehuThis compendium of research presents frameworks useful for ICT4D practitioners, policy-makers and consultants to better understand the impact of informatics initiatives in developing countries. It summarises a series of impact assessment frameworks, each one drawing from a different perspective. As well, it provides a bibliography – a tabular summary of real-world examples of ICT4D impact assessment. The ICT4D value chain illustration depicts the basis for understanding the assessment of ICT4D projects, taking into consideration elements of readiness, availability, uptake, and impact.Item Conceptual and methodological problems in the study of ICT appropriation process by low- income urban youth in Argentina(2010) Benítez Larghi, Sebastián; Moguillansky, Marina; Aguerre, Carolina; Fontecoba, Ariel; Orchuela, Jimena; Calamari, Marina; Ponce de León, Jimena; Gaztañaga, MiguelIn this work we discuss the theoretical framework and the methodology to approach the relationship between public access to ICT, poor urban youth groups and socio-economic changes in their daily lives. For this purpose we analyze the concepts of appropriation and contribution versus those of impact and attribution, considering the theoretical and methodological implications of this difference. This is followed by an analysis of the selected methodological strategy and the logical model used in this research. Finally, the article analyses the practical implications of these concepts and the selected methodological strategy for the efficiency in the design of public policies.Item Connecting in real space : how people share knowledge and technologies in cybercafés(Sam Nunn School of International Affairs & School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, US, 2010) Best, Michael L.We examine how the internet brings people together not virtually over digital networks but physically while co-located in public spaces. In particular we are interested in how people in cybercafés share and collaborate with others who are physically present in the facility at the same time. We hypothesize that both explicit and implicit collaboration occurs among co-present internet users – at times intentional and purposeful while in other cases accidental, fleeting or voyeuristic. Public shared internet facilities are particularly important in low-come settings such as found in Africa. To examine this hypothesis in an African context we conducted a survey of 75 computer users at a major cybercafé, Busy Internet, in Accra, Ghana. We found that more than one-third of respondents reported some significant form of collaboration and computer sharing with friends, family members, business associates, and even strangers while in the café. Of those respondents reporting computer sharing one-half reported gaining knowledge and learning from the other user as their primary reason for sharing while only a small minority sited purely economic reasons for sharing. Those respondents who shared computers typically came to the cybercafé with more friends or associates, and generally had a better view towards collaborative group work and broader forms of interaction while in the café compared to the nonsharing respondents.Item Connecting people for development : why public access ICTs matter(Technology and Social Change Group, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, US, 2013) Sey, Araba; Coward, Chris; Bar, François; Sciadas, George; Rothschild, Chris; Koepke, LucasLibraries, telecenters, and cybercafés play a critical role in extending the benefits of ICTs to a diverse range of people worldwide. The Global Impact Study provides evidence about the scale, character, and impacts of public access ICTs in eight countries: Bangladesh, Botswana, Brazil, Chile, Ghana, Lithuania, the Philippines, and South Africa. This report summarizes the study’s key findings, situating public access in the context of national development, discussing some disputed issues, and providing recommendations for policymakers, public access practitioners and researchers. Recommendations are intended to provide a framework for supportive policies and public access ICTs.Item Debates teóricos entorno al vínculo de los jóvenes con las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC)(2009) Aguerre, Carolina; Benítez Larghi, Sebastián; Calamari, Marina; Fontecoba, Ariel; Gaztañaga, Miguel; Moguillansky, Marina; Orchuela, Jimena; Ponce de León, JimenaItem Digital economies at global margins(MIT Press, a copublication with International Development Research Centre, 2019-01) Graham, MarkThis book brings together new scholarship that addresses what increasing digital connectivity and the digitalization of the economy means for people and places at economic margins. As you read through the book, you might find it useful to think about the roles digital connectivity plays in transforming these economically peripheral areas: whether digital tools and technologies are simply amplifying existing inequalities, barriers, and constraints, or allowing them to be transcended; who is actually benefitting from processes of digitalization and practices of digital engagement; who engages in digital production and where does it occur; whether changes in digital economies at the margins really match up to our expectations for change; and ultimately who are the winners and losers in our new digital and digitally mediated economies.Item Final technical report of the Amy Mahan Research Fellowship Program to Assess the Impact of Public Access to ICT(Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, 2012-05) Proenza, Francisco J.This fellowship program made it possible to strengthen independent research capacity for assessing the impact of ICT4D in various regions and contexts. Award winners came from 12 countries. Studies completed are to be published in a book titled “ICT and Social Change: The Impact of Public Access to Computers and the Internet” (See Appendix). Studies cover urban cybercafés in 7 countries, and looked at telecentres in both rural and urban settings. An important factor in ICT4D programme sustainability, is understanding what are the key determinants of success and failure in public access to ICT initiatives.Item Global impact study : review(Gamos, Reading, GB, 2011) Batchelor, SimonThis formative evaluation develops recommendations based on lessons that have emerged from the coordination, management, and implementation of various activities within The Global Impact Study of Public Access to Information & Communication Technologies, at the halfway point of its five year mandate. Looking at libraries, telecentres, and cyber-cafés, the Global Impact Study investigates impact in a number of areas, including communication and leisure, culture and language, education, employment and income, governance, and health; to the extent that public use differs from private use, we need to understand these differences, and articulate the mechanisms through which they produce impact.Item Global impact study Brasil, 2012 : principais resultados; o acesso às tecnologias da informação e comunicação nos centros de inclusão digital(Pensamento Digital, 2013) Alves, Ana Claudia; Nogueira Cortimiglia, Ângela; Voelcker, MartaItem Global impact study of public access to information and communication technologies : final technical report(Technology & Social Change Group, University of Washington Information School, Seattle, WA, US, 2013-08) Coward, Chris; Sey, ArabaResults show that a central impact of public access is the promotion of digital inclusion through technology access, information access, and development of ICT skills. Both users and non-users report positive impacts in various social and economic areas of their lives. This report presents the objectives, accomplishments, shortcomings, lessons, and reflections of this five-year study. The Global Impact Study generated evidence about the scale, character, and impacts of public access ICTs in eight countries: Bangladesh, Botswana, Brazil, Chile, Ghana, Lithuania, the Philippines, and South Africa.Item ICTs and its social meanings : women in the margins of Thailand (December 2010)(2010)This paper explores ICT influence in the lives of marginalized women migrant workers in Thailand in the context of the repressive military regime of Burma (Myanmar). The enabling environment of ICTs in the border created significant differences in women’s survival, as freedom of information, communication and mobility had been largely repressed inside their own country. This paper argues for increased opportunities for women to access and use ICTs. While use of information and communication technology allows for processes of information and communication that were previously impossible for women to attain, many are still excluded.Item Implicancias del uso de las tecnologías de la información y comunicación en municipios rurales : un estudio de caso en Ayacucho, Perú(Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP), Lima, PE, 2010) Kanashiro, Laura LeónItem Internet centers/usage by Burmese ethnic migrants in Mae Sod : traversing the borders of Internet divide and recasting ethnic identities(2010) Dacanay, NikosThis paper looks at the symbiotic relationship between the use of the Internet and the re/construction of ethnic identities. It argues that the incomplete and ongoing self-making nature of ethnic identity can shape how the Internet is used, as much as how the Internet shapes identity. Taken from ongoing research on the use of Internet centers by marginalized women in the Thai-Burmese border, the paper reflects upon the various means and meanings of the appropriation of the technology.Item Literature review on the impact of public access to information and communication technologies(Center for Information and Society, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, US, 2009) Sey, Araba; Fellows, MichelleThis document summarizes preliminary findings of a literature review of research on the impacts of public access to information and communication technologies. The report was prepared by Araba Sey and Michelle Fellows for the Global Impact Study.Item Non-User Survey: Usage and Perceptions(2011)This questionnaire is used in a study about public access to computing venues, like cybercafés, telecenters, and libraries, and focuses on the reasons why some demographics do not use them. Mobile phone and Internet usage are also factors of the questionnaire. As well, some questions are specifically designed to help estimate the value people place on Public Libraries, Telecenters and Internet Cafes.
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