Pub Date : 2023-11-15DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2023.2279310
I. Diez, J. Bossio
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Pub Date : 2023-11-13DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2023.2279326
Hannah Klose, Lubna Jebin
ABSTRACTThe current paper examines how women in Bangladesh contest abuse within patriarchal systems of control. In many cases, women will often decide the extent to which they adopt a particular technology to prevent experiences of abuse on social media platforms. In the current study, we analysed how women's online presence is controlled by patriarchal norms which impede their agency and recontextualise their empowerment through social media. As such, we rely on the narratives of three women in Dhaka, Bangladesh to understand how they exercise agency on social media platforms to ensure their own empowerment and avoid (further) experiences of abuse. Although we recognise that ICT for Development (ICT4D) can be a crucial way to ensure women’s empowerment, we argue that, as a male-dominated space, social media platforms promote restrictive and unequal gender stereotypes that require women to find alternative strategies to challenge and resist existing patriarchal structures.KEYWORDS: Abuseempowermentagencymale-dominated spacewomensocial media platforms AcknowledgementsThe authors are grateful to the interview participants for giving their time and providing their expertize. Their insights, knowledge and experiences have been incredibly valuable to this study. Thank you also to Kylie Martin and Professor JaneMaree Maher for providing insightful feedback which has assisted in the further development of the central arguments and theoretical framework.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 A length of material worn over the chest and thrown back around the shoulders, typically with a salwar kameez, by women from South Asia (Oxford learner’s dictionaries)2 Bangladeshi synonyms for prostitute.Additional informationNotes on contributorsHannah KloseHannah Klose is a PhD Candidate in Criminology at Monash University and a Teaching Associate at RMIT University. Hannah’s PhD examines girls’ and young women's individual experiences of online gender-based violence (OGBV) perpetrated through social media platforms. Drawing on a continuum framework, her thesis specifically focusses on how girls and young women understand and respond to their experiences of OGBV.Lubna JebinLubna Jebin is an Associate Professor in Public Administration at Jagannath University, Dhaka, Bangladesh and a PhD Candidate in Sociology, Monash University, Australia. Her doctoral research is on Bangladeshi women’s experiences of violence in the Saudi Arabian paid domestic labour regime. Lubna’s particular focus is on gendered labour, women’s body, gendered violence, and women’s strategic negotiation practices.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2023.2279309
Muluneh Atinaf, Salehu Anteneh, Mesfin Kifle
ABSTRACTThough the importance of design knowledge is becoming critical the effort to producing prescriptive knowledge in the information and communication for development domain is limited. Such knowledge addresses the requirements of local development contexts, practices, and priorities and balance the issues of generalizability and specificity through contextualizing the design principles (DPs). This research shows how such contextualized design knowledge can be produced to address the challenges presented by socio-technical contexts in the Ethiopian agriculture extension information service system. The knowledge produced is grounded on insights from kernel/reference theories and complemented with knowledge from empirical observations. The research identified six DPs to address four design requirements: (1) supporting stakeholders’ networking; (2) developing information content that meets the needs of the local context; (3) improving accessibility of agricultural extension information to stakeholders; and (4) enhancing adoption and effective use of the information system. The DPs to address the above socio-technical requirements fall into principles to improve: (1) actor-to-actor networking; (2) agriculture extension information system content development; (3) the accessibility of information; (4) device accessibility; (5) accessibility of interfaces; and (6) effective use and adoption of the (AEIS).KEYWORDS: Socio-technical design principlesdesign principles for agriculture extension information systemscontextualized design principlesadapting kernel theories to local contexts Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
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Pub Date : 2023-10-27DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2023.2237461
Koffi Dumor, Zhao Shurong, Hafez Komla Dumor, Enock Mintah Ampaw, Edem Koffi Amouzou, Samuel Okae-Adjei, Eric Kofi Boadi
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Pub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2023.2282269
Sajda Qureshi
ABSTRACT Digital transformation goes beyond digitalization to make radical changes to organisational models and social structures. It takes people with knowledge, skills and motivation to use ICTs to be able to carry out digital transformation. Human capital is seen to be the key for effective digital transformation as it can fuel sustainable development when people use ICTs to lead the lives they choose to live. Unless there is a transformation in capabilities, access to ICTs, requisite skills and knowledge, then digital transformation will merely exacerbate existing inequalities. It will need to touch personal psychology: not merely enabling the marginalised to participate but offering them the ability use digitalization to improve their lives. The human capital key to digital transformation is offered as a means of attaining positive cycles of sustainable development. Lessons learned from papers in this issue throw insight into ways of applying digital technologies to overcome forces of oppression.
{"title":"Digital transformation for development: a human capital key or system of oppression?","authors":"Sajda Qureshi","doi":"10.1080/02681102.2023.2282269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02681102.2023.2282269","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Digital transformation goes beyond digitalization to make radical changes to organisational models and social structures. It takes people with knowledge, skills and motivation to use ICTs to be able to carry out digital transformation. Human capital is seen to be the key for effective digital transformation as it can fuel sustainable development when people use ICTs to lead the lives they choose to live. Unless there is a transformation in capabilities, access to ICTs, requisite skills and knowledge, then digital transformation will merely exacerbate existing inequalities. It will need to touch personal psychology: not merely enabling the marginalised to participate but offering them the ability use digitalization to improve their lives. The human capital key to digital transformation is offered as a means of attaining positive cycles of sustainable development. Lessons learned from papers in this issue throw insight into ways of applying digital technologies to overcome forces of oppression.","PeriodicalId":51547,"journal":{"name":"Information Technology for Development","volume":"32 1","pages":"423 - 434"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139324396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2023.2244459
Ana Paula dos Santos Tavares, L. Joia, Marcelo Fornazin
{"title":"ICT initiatives for vulnerable groups in Brazil: intended and unintended consequences during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Ana Paula dos Santos Tavares, L. Joia, Marcelo Fornazin","doi":"10.1080/02681102.2023.2244459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02681102.2023.2244459","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51547,"journal":{"name":"Information Technology for Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44392015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2023.2244465
Biswajit Patra, N. Sethi
{"title":"Does digital payment induce economic growth in emerging economies? The mediating role of institutional quality, consumption expenditure, and bank credit","authors":"Biswajit Patra, N. Sethi","doi":"10.1080/02681102.2023.2244465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02681102.2023.2244465","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51547,"journal":{"name":"Information Technology for Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48477976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-07DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2023.2237470
M. M. Moeini Gharagozloo, Mahdi Forghani Bajestani, Ali Moeini Gharagozloo, Amirmahmood Amini Sedeh, F. Askarzadeh
ABSTRACT Women entrepreneurs are a promising yet under-supported group that have notable impacts on the economy. Recent societal attempts to empower female entrepreneurs and their critical role in economic development have motivated research on determinants of women’s participation in entrepreneurship and what can reduce gender disparities in this field. Drawing on insights from information economics, this paper emphasizes the recent transformations through digital technologies and examines the effect of digital readiness of an economy on women’s ability to close the gap on entrepreneurial activities. Using a sample of international observations over the 2010–2016 period, we show that the capability of an economy to exploit digital opportunities increases female participation in opportunity-driven entrepreneurship. The results also indicate that the positive role of digital readiness in women’s entrepreneurship strengthens in populations with higher perceived opportunity and, more interestingly, higher fear of failure.
{"title":"The role of digitalization in decreasing gender gap in opportunity driven entrepreneurship","authors":"M. M. Moeini Gharagozloo, Mahdi Forghani Bajestani, Ali Moeini Gharagozloo, Amirmahmood Amini Sedeh, F. Askarzadeh","doi":"10.1080/02681102.2023.2237470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02681102.2023.2237470","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Women entrepreneurs are a promising yet under-supported group that have notable impacts on the economy. Recent societal attempts to empower female entrepreneurs and their critical role in economic development have motivated research on determinants of women’s participation in entrepreneurship and what can reduce gender disparities in this field. Drawing on insights from information economics, this paper emphasizes the recent transformations through digital technologies and examines the effect of digital readiness of an economy on women’s ability to close the gap on entrepreneurial activities. Using a sample of international observations over the 2010–2016 period, we show that the capability of an economy to exploit digital opportunities increases female participation in opportunity-driven entrepreneurship. The results also indicate that the positive role of digital readiness in women’s entrepreneurship strengthens in populations with higher perceived opportunity and, more interestingly, higher fear of failure.","PeriodicalId":51547,"journal":{"name":"Information Technology for Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48187082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-21DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2023.2233459
Nilza Collinson, Sundeep Sahay
{"title":"Introducing digital health information systems in post-conflict Mozambique: a historical perspective","authors":"Nilza Collinson, Sundeep Sahay","doi":"10.1080/02681102.2023.2233459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02681102.2023.2233459","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51547,"journal":{"name":"Information Technology for Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47573382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-12DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2023.2233463
B. Behera, Anasuya Haldar, N. Sethi
{"title":"Investigating the direct and indirect effects of Information and Communication Technology on economic growth in the emerging economies: role of financial development, foreign direct investment, innovation, and institutional quality","authors":"B. Behera, Anasuya Haldar, N. Sethi","doi":"10.1080/02681102.2023.2233463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02681102.2023.2233463","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51547,"journal":{"name":"Information Technology for Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41966401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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