Proceedings of the First ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS) 2018 : Tech Museum, San Jose, CA, USA, Facebook, Menlo Park, CA, USA, June 20-22, 2018 / conference chair: Ellen Zegura, Georgia Tech最新文献
Samia Ibtasam, Lubna Razaq, Haider W. Anwar, H. Mehmood, Kushal Shah, Jennifer Webster, Neha Kumar, Richard J. Anderson
In resource-constrained economies, lack of financial participation prohibits women's economic empowerment and opportunities to improve circumstances. With the advent of Digital Financial Services (DFS), a growing emphasis has been placed on the possible positive impact of DFS on lives of individuals. However, for people to understand, adopt, and use DFS, they require certain prerequisites and enablers. In this paper, we use a mixed methods approach to analyze the gendered barriers in the readiness for and adoption of DFS as well as the impact of gendered roles in curtailing or enhancing the same. We present our analysis of 51 semi-structured interviews to evaluate the affordances or, lack thereof, in affordability of funds, authority of transactions, access to technological devices, and agency of social and cultural mobility--all of which are prerequisites to fully utilizing DFS. We discuss the sociocultural and religious context in Pakistan that underpins some of these gendered barriers and the perceived views of both men and women.
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I. Holeman, Ari D Johnson, K. Kayentao, Youssouf Keita, Stephen Odindo, Caroline Whidden
This commentary1 outlines the rationale for building community health innovation networks in settings of poverty and high burdens of disease. These networks integrate deep research expertise and sustained implementation infrastructure, with the aim of streamlining the design, building and scale up of evidence-based technical innovations for community health. Drawing on our experiences establishing such networks in Mali and Kenya, we discuss the importance of: 1) sustaining operational capacity to strengthen health systems; 2) being strategic about how we embed design research within ongoing implementation efforts; and 3) institutional partnerships that invest in infrastructure to support a series of studies and innovation efforts over time. Without claiming to offer any 'quick and easy' solutions, we argue that this approach has real potential to address the gap between research and practice in technical innovation for global health and sustainable development.
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Proceedings of the First ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS) 2018 : Tech Museum, San Jose, CA, USA, Facebook, Menlo Park, CA, USA, June 20-22, 2018 / conference chair: Ellen Zegura, Georgia Tech
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