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Teaching globalization, globally: A 7-year case study of south africa--u.s. virtual teams 全球化教学,全球化:南非-美国7年案例研究。虚拟团队
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2008-04-01 DOI: 10.1162/ITID.2008.00018
D. Cogburn, Nanette S. Levinson
This article reports on a project conducted from 1999--2006 that involved a substantial collaboration between South African and U.S. universities to build human capacity for the knowledge-intensive global economy through geographically distributed collaborative learning. The project used a highly interactive, rich media, synchronous and asynchronous learning environment to foster U.S.--South Africa student team learning. Particular attention was paid to the use of commercially available Web-based collaboration technologies that work well in both developed and developing country university settings. The study had one overarching research question: Can universities in developing as well as developed countries use a suite of commercially available Web-based collaboration technologies to successfully deliver an advanced global graduate seminar? Data for the study came from narrative evaluations and post-hoc surveys of student participants. Focusing on providing a model that can be used in disparate multidisciplinary and university settings, the article highlights both the technologies and the pedagogy that recognize cultural differences and cross-national collaborative opportunities in university settings.
这篇文章报道了1999年至2006年进行的一个项目,该项目涉及南非和美国大学之间的实质性合作,通过地理分布的协作学习,为知识密集型全球经济建设人类能力。该项目采用高度互动、富媒体、同步和异步的学习环境,促进美国-南非学生团队学习。特别注意使用在发达国家和发展中国家大学环境中都很有效的商业上可获得的基于网络的协作技术。这项研究有一个首要的研究问题:发展中国家和发达国家的大学能否使用一套商业上可用的基于网络的协作技术来成功地提供一个高级的全球研究生研讨会?这项研究的数据来自对学生参与者的叙述性评估和事后调查。本文着重于提供一个可以在不同的多学科和大学环境中使用的模型,强调了在大学环境中认识到文化差异和跨国合作机会的技术和教学法。
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引用次数: 19
User-centered design considered harmful1 (with apologies to edsger dijkstra, niklaus wirth, and don norman) 以用户为中心的设计被认为是有害的1(向edsger dijkstra、niklaus wirth和don norman道歉)
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2008-04-01 DOI: 10.1162/ITID.2008.00013
A. Dearden
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引用次数: 23
Internet presence as knowledge capacity: The case of research in information and communication technology infrastructure reform 网络存在作为知识能力:以信息通信技术基础设施改革研究为例
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2008-04-01 DOI: 10.1162/ITID.2008.00019
Sujata Gamage, R. Samarajiva
Knowledge is an important driver of development. As the production and dissemination of knowledge become increasingly mediated by the Internet, the Internet presence and connectivity of researchers are becoming more valid than the conventionally used publication-and citation-based indicators. This article presents a methodology that includes the use of the Google Scholar search engine to locate knowledgeable individuals in Asia in a policy-relevant field, paying particular attention to locating researchers in developing countries or in nonacademic settings in Asia. Internet presence is not a guarantee of quality. Increasingly sophisticaticated search engines offer viable means of assessing research quality and enable us to measure the connectivity of researchers on the Internet. Although the focus of the research is information and communication technology infrastructure reform in East, Southeast, and South Asia, the method can be used to assess knowledge capacity and locate knowledgeable individuals in any field.
知识是发展的重要动力。随着知识的生产和传播越来越多地以互联网为媒介,研究人员在互联网上的存在和连通性正变得比传统使用的基于出版物和引用的指标更有效。本文提出了一种方法,其中包括使用谷歌Scholar搜索引擎来定位亚洲政策相关领域的知识渊博的个人,特别注意定位亚洲发展中国家或非学术环境中的研究人员。互联网上的存在并不能保证质量。越来越复杂的搜索引擎提供了评估研究质量的可行方法,并使我们能够衡量互联网上研究人员的连通性。虽然研究的重点是东亚、东南亚和南亚的信息和通信技术基础设施改革,但该方法可用于评估任何领域的知识能力和定位知识人员。
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引用次数: 1
Assessing the impact of public access to icts 评估公众获取信通技术的影响
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2008-04-01 DOI: 10.1162/ITID.2008.00011
F. Bar, M. Best
During the past few months, your editors have been taking part in the launch of a 5-year study, supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (of Canada) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, investigating the social and economic impact of public access to information and communication technology (IPAI).1 Many researchers are involved, at institutions ranging from the University of Washington and IIIT Bangalore to Lirne.net to our own universities. Current country research teams in Chile, Bangladesh, and Lithuania will soon be joined by others in several other countries. At this formative stage of the project, our discussions have focused on coming up with a systematic assessment approach.
在过去的几个月里,你们的编辑们参加了一项由(加拿大)国际发展研究中心(IDRC)和比尔及梅林达·盖茨基金会支持的为期5年的研究,调查公众获得信息和通信技术(IPAI)的社会和经济影响许多研究人员都参与其中,从华盛顿大学和班加罗尔理工学院到我们自己的大学。目前在智利、孟加拉国和立陶宛的国家研究小组将很快加入其他几个国家的其他研究小组。在这个项目的形成阶段,我们的讨论集中在提出一个系统的评估方法。
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引用次数: 11
The next decade of ict development: Access, applications, and the forces of convergence1 信息通信技术发展的下一个十年:接入、应用和融合的力量
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2008-04-01 DOI: 10.1162/ITID.2008.00012
Mohsen Khalil, C. Kenny
The last decade has seen an incredible expansion in access to ICTs, as well as an explosion in applications. Driving this revolution have been new disruptive technologies exploited by new business models, in turn enabled by policy and regulatory reforms. The technologies driving change in the next decade may well encourage a further blurring of the line between access, industries and applications, leading to new challenges for the sustainability of existing business models and policy and regulatory environments going forward.
过去十年见证了信通技术获取的惊人扩展,以及应用的爆炸式增长。推动这场革命的是新的颠覆性技术,这些技术被新的商业模式所利用,而政策和监管改革又使之成为可能。未来十年,推动变革的技术可能会进一步模糊接入、行业和应用之间的界限,给现有商业模式的可持续性以及未来的政策和监管环境带来新的挑战。
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引用次数: 20
Female empowerment and development in latin america: Use versus production of information and communications technology 拉丁美洲妇女赋权与发展:信息和通信技术的使用与生产
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2008-04-01 DOI: 10.1162/ITID.2008.00014
M. Parmentier, S. Huyer
In 1992 the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) arst highlighted technology as a tool for human development, and the more recent Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have recognized the important role that ICT can play in the aght against global poverty and as an effective tool to help achieve the MDGs (Information and Communication Technology for Development, UNDP). Furthermore, nearly all national governments have addressed technology in some fashion as a national imperative for sustainable development. Heeks (2008) has noted that the construction of the Internet and the MDGs gave rise to what he has called ICT4D 1.0, the arst phase of a process to link ICTs with development goals by implementing technology as a tool for development, usually in the form of telecenters, and creating ICT access for the poor. Women’s empowerment is also thematic as a policy initiative to promote development. Gender is considered a cross-cutting theme of the MDGs, and the afth goal calls for gender equality and the empowerment of women. ICTs, as stated by the 2003 World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva, are a key tool to promote this empowerment. The previous issue of this journal (Volume 4, Issue 2) presented several successful projects and research andings in the area of ICTs, women, and development. To follow up and expand on this important area of IT and development, this paper suggests two approaches, rather than one, for conceptualizing ICTs and the empowerment of women. In the arst two sections of the paper we argue that a distinction can and should be made between women as users and as producers of ICTs. We follow this with a brief review of how this might apply to Latin America, providing policy and research suggestions for this region as well as other developing regions of the world.
1992年,联合国开发计划署(UNDP)首次强调了技术作为人类发展的工具,最近的千年发展目标(MDGs)已经认识到信息通信技术在消除全球贫困方面可以发挥的重要作用,并作为帮助实现千年发展目标(UNDP)的有效工具。此外,几乎所有国家的政府都以某种方式把技术作为国家可持续发展的必要条件。Heeks(2008)指出,网际网路与千年发展目标的建构,产生了他所谓的ICT4D 1.0,这是将资讯及通讯技术与发展目标连结的第一阶段,方法是利用科技作为发展工具,通常以远程中心的形式,并为穷人创造资讯及通讯技术的使用途径。赋予妇女权力也是促进发展的一项政策倡议。性别被认为是千年发展目标的一个跨领域主题,第五个目标要求两性平等和赋予妇女权力。正如2003年在日内瓦举行的信息社会世界峰会所指出的,信息通信技术是促进这种赋权的关键工具。本刊上一期(第4卷第2期)介绍了信息通信技术、妇女与发展领域的若干成功项目和研究成果。为了跟进和扩展这一信息技术和发展的重要领域,本文提出了两种方法,而不是一种方法,来概念化信息通信技术和赋予妇女权力。在本文的前两节中,我们认为可以而且应该区分妇女作为信息和通信技术的使用者和生产者。在此之后,我们将简要回顾如何将其应用于拉丁美洲,为该地区以及世界其他发展中地区提供政策和研究建议。
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引用次数: 8
Women and gender in ict statistics and indicators for development 信息通信技术统计和发展指标中的妇女和性别问题
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2008-01-01 DOI: 10.1162/ITID.2008.00006
N. Hafkin, S. Huyer
Issues related to the gender digital divide have been prominent in discussions of the information society. However, the paucity of statistical data on the subject makes it difficult, if not impossible, to make the case for the inclusion of gender issues in ICT policies, plans, and strategies to policymakers, particularly those in developing countries. This paper surveys available gender ICT statistics and indicators and makes recommendations for filling the gaps that exist. Few gender ICT statistics are available because many governments do not collect ICT statistics consistently and regularly, and rarely are the data disaggregated by sex. The best practices are generally found in developed countries, with most developing countries lagging behind. Recent work that sheds light on women, gender, and the information society includes a major six-country study on the gender digital divide in francophone countries of West Africa and Orbicom's 2005 research on women in the information society. Although major composite ICT indices do not publish gender and ICT statistics, the potential remains for them to do so, and some indices encourage others to enrich their work with gender data.
在信息社会的讨论中,与性别数字鸿沟有关的问题一直很突出。然而,由于缺乏这方面的统计数据,很难向决策者,特别是发展中国家的决策者,提出将性别问题纳入信息和通信技术政策、计划和战略的理由。本文调查了现有的信息通信技术性别统计数据和指标,并为填补存在的差距提出了建议。信息和通信技术的性别统计数据很少,因为许多政府没有持续和定期收集信息和通信技术统计数据,也很少按性别分列数据。最佳做法一般出现在发达国家,而大多数发展中国家落在后面。最近研究妇女、性别和信息社会的工作包括一项关于西非法语国家性别数字鸿沟的六国研究,以及Orbicom 2005年关于信息社会中的妇女的研究。虽然主要的信息和通信技术综合指数不公布性别和信息和通信技术统计数据,但它们仍然有可能这样做,一些指数鼓励其他指数用性别数据丰富其工作。
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引用次数: 121
Empowering women weavers? the internet in rural morocco 赋予女织工权力?摩洛哥农村的互联网
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2008-01-01 DOI: 10.1162/ITID.2008.00005
S. Davis
This is a case study of whether and how the information society empowers women at two sites in rural Morocco, where mostly illiterate women sell the rugs they weave on the Internet. It examines both beneats and constraints, which include the women’s illiteracy and lack of net skills in addition to the lack of village Internet connections. Among the beneats is a worldwide market with increased sales through which women rather than middlemen obtain more of the proats generated by their work; these proats are used mainly to support the family or for children’s education and sometimes for community projects. Thus women gain some degree of empowerment. This article discusses what that empowerment means and its implications. Although widely used, the concept of empowerment is often not clearly deaned. I examine ways in which this Moroccan ICT project empowers local people (i.e., whether it gives them more choices in and control over their lives, including access to resources, more agency, and achievements) (Kabeer, 1999; The World Bank Group, 2005), in both the individual beneat and collective, or condition-altering, senses (Young, 1997). There are widespread stereotypes about the relation of Islam to gender and power. In these, men hold all authority and women must submit to their will; men are fully empowered to control their own lives and the lives of others, and women have no power at all. This, in fact, is not true for Morocco (Davis, 1983), nor is it true for other Muslim countries. Within both Morocco and the Arab world, women’s individual and collective levels of empowerment vary. For example, women cannot drive nor go out without being fully covered in Saudi Arabia, whereas Moroccan women can both drive and dress as they wish. In Morocco one often sees a girl in hijab or modest dress, with her hair covered, walking hand in hand with her friend who has oowing tresses and is wearing snug blue jeans. There is also regional variation: a middle class young urban woman would usually have more say in choosing her future spouse than would her rural Moroccan cousin. One ands such degrees of variation within all Muslim countries. One source of stereotypes of Muslim women’s powerlessness is the lack of accurate information on their lives, at least until relatively recently. Past observations were often by outsiders, usually males, for whom Muslim women are expected to literally or aguratively disappear (i.e., serving guests silently and with downcast eyes). This was interpreted as demonstrating their utter submission to males. But we now have a plethora of information from women, from their own cultures, or from others who live with them. These accounts provide a much richer and more realistic picture of Muslim women’s roles—roles in which they have various kinds of power in various domains.
这是一个关于信息社会是否以及如何赋予妇女权力的案例研究,在摩洛哥农村的两个地点,大多数不识字的妇女在互联网上出售她们编织的地毯。它审查了好处和限制,其中包括妇女文盲和缺乏网络技能,以及村庄缺乏互联网连接。其中一个好处是,全球市场的销售额增加了,通过这个市场,女性而不是中间商获得了更多由她们的工作产生的收益;这些款项主要用于支持家庭或儿童教育,有时也用于社区项目。因此,女性获得了一定程度的权力。本文将讨论这种授权的含义及其含义。授权的概念虽然被广泛使用,但往往没有得到明确的界定。我检视摩洛哥ICT计划赋予当地民众权力的方式(例如,是否让他们对自己的生活有更多选择与掌控,包括取得资源、更多代理与成就)(Kabeer, 1999;世界银行集团,2005年),在个人利益和集体或条件改变的意义上(Young, 1997年)。关于伊斯兰教与性别和权力的关系,存在着广泛的刻板印象。在这些事上,男人握有一切权柄,女人必须服从他们的意志;男人完全有权控制自己的生活和他人的生活,而女人则完全没有权力。事实上,摩洛哥并非如此(Davis, 1983),其他穆斯林国家也并非如此。在摩洛哥和阿拉伯世界,妇女的个人和集体赋权水平各不相同。例如,在沙特阿拉伯,女性如果没有全身覆盖就不能开车或外出,而摩洛哥女性可以随心所欲地开车和穿着。在摩洛哥,人们经常看到一个女孩戴着头巾或朴素的衣服,盖着头发,和她的朋友手牵手走在一起,她的朋友留着长发,穿着舒适的蓝色牛仔裤。也有地区差异:一个中产阶级的年轻城市女性在选择未来配偶时通常比她的摩洛哥农村表亲有更多的发言权。在所有的穆斯林国家中都有这样的差异。关于穆斯林妇女无能为力的刻板印象的一个来源是缺乏关于她们生活的准确信息,至少直到最近。过去的观察通常是由外人进行的,通常是男性,对他们来说,穆斯林女性被期望从字面上或字面上消失(即,默默地、低着眼睛为客人服务)。这被解释为表明她们完全服从于男性。但我们现在从女性、她们自己的文化或与她们生活在一起的人那里获得了大量的信息。这些描述为穆斯林妇女的角色提供了一幅更丰富、更现实的画面——她们在不同领域拥有各种权力的角色。
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引用次数: 21
Are all american women making progress online? african--americans and latinas 所有的美国女性都在网络上取得进步吗?非裔美国人和拉丁裔
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2008-01-01 DOI: 10.1162/ITID.2008.00008
Caroline J. Tolbert, K. Mossberger, Bridgett A. King, G. Miller
Although the gender gap online has narrowed in the United States, little research on technology access and use has examined the different experiences of women---particularly the interaction between gender, race/ethnicity, and poverty. Using the most recent comprehensive survey of technology use and access, the 2003 Current Population Survey, we find new evidence of diminishing gender disparities overall, differences between African--American women and Latinas in the factors that influence technology access and use, and some indications that minority women outpace their male peers online. However, substantial disadvantages for minority women remain, driven by inequalities in education and income. We find evidence that while there is virtually no gender gap in technology access between White men and women, there is a gender divide among minority populations, but women are not unilaterally disadvantaged.
尽管美国的网络性别差距已经缩小,但很少有关于技术获取和使用的研究考察了女性的不同经历——尤其是性别、种族/民族和贫困之间的相互作用。利用最新的关于技术使用和获取的综合调查,即2003年当前人口调查,我们发现了新的证据,表明总体上性别差距正在缩小,非洲裔美国妇女和拉丁裔妇女在影响技术获取和使用的因素方面存在差异,一些迹象表明少数族裔妇女在上网方面超过了男性同龄人。然而,由于教育和收入方面的不平等,少数民族妇女仍然处于相当不利的地位。我们发现有证据表明,虽然白人男性和女性在技术获取方面几乎没有性别差距,但少数民族人口中存在性别差异,但女性并非单方面处于不利地位。
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引用次数: 15
Empowerment zones? women, internet cafés, and life transformations in egypt 开发区吗?埃及的妇女、网吧和生活变革
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2008-01-01 DOI: 10.1162/ITID.2008.00009
Deborah L. Wheeler
Information technology is said to provide paths to empowerment, yet hard data about how this occurs are scant, especially concerning women's IT practices in the Middle East and North Africa. This article uses 25 interviews with female Internet cafe users in Cairo as a small step toward bridging this gap. In general, this study found three main empowerment narratives among females who regularly use Internet cafes in Egypt (the average number of hours online per week was 9.87 for those interviewed). The Internet is said by participants in this study to 1) increase information access/professional development, 2) expand or maintain social networks and social capital, and 3) transform social and political awareness. While this study is based on a small sample size that cannot be generalized at this stage, the analysis does reveal subtle ways in which Egyptian society is changing---one Internet-enabled person at a time.
据说信息技术提供了赋予权力的途径,但关于这是如何发生的可靠数据很少,特别是关于中东和北非妇女的IT实践。本文通过对开罗25位女性网吧用户的访谈,作为缩小这一差距的一小步。总的来说,这项研究在经常使用网吧的埃及女性中发现了三种主要的赋权叙事(受访者平均每周上网时间为9.87小时)。本研究的参与者表示,互联网可以1)增加信息获取/专业发展,2)扩大或维持社会网络和社会资本,以及3)转变社会和政治意识。虽然这项研究的样本量很小,现阶段还不能概括,但分析确实揭示了埃及社会正在发生变化的微妙方式——一次一个上网的人。
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