Pub Date : 2022-04-05DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2022.2051417
R. Pradhan, Mak B. Arvin, Mahendhiran Nair, J. Hall, Sara E. Bennett
ABSTRACT The information and communication technology (ICT) revolution has brought positive spill-over effects on institutions and economies across the globe, but it has also increased the information gaps between countries. A key characteristic that may explain these widening gaps is the deepening endogenous relationships between ICT infrastructure, institutions of governance, and economic growth in many developing countries. Thus far, the links between these variables have not been discernible in developing economies, so few studies have explored them. In this paper, we investigate the possible Granger causal relationships among institutional quality, economic growth, and ICT infrastructure development for a sample of developing countries for the period from 2005 to 2019. The application of a vector error-correction model reveals strong inter-relationships between all the variables in the short run. In the long run, institutional quality and ICT infrastructure development stimulate economic growth. These complex relationships are explored and lessons are drawn for policymakers. RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS We assess interactions between institutional quality and ICT infrastructure as well as economic growth. We deploy a panel Granger causality test for low- and lower middle-income countries from 2005 to 2019. We show that there is Granger causality between the variables in the short and the long term. For each case and specification, there is support for the hypothesis that ICT infrastructure and institutional quality both Granger-cause growth in the economy. In the short run, we note a feedback relationship between institutional quality and economic growth. Other short-run results are more varied, based on the particulars proxies for institutional quality and ICT infrastructure.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-05DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2022.2046536
Chavi Asrani, A. Kar
ABSTRACT Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) have drastically improved global connectivity and pervaded into most aspects of modern human life. To appropriate the benefits from ICTs, access to the required technology is an essential prerequisite. India’s ICT adoption has been fast since 2000, but with sizeable disparities across the country. This study identifies the diffusion pattern of digital communications services in India, while accounting for technological augmentation. The study also surveys the factors influencing the variations in regional ICT adoption in India and supports Rogers theory of innovation diffusion by investigating how the social systems impacts technology adoption at different penetration levels. The findings will be useful for infrastructure capacity planning, taking policy decisions and projecting the diffusion process of emerging consumer technologies for advancing digital inclusion to support inclusive development.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2022.2062291
S. Qureshi
ABSTRACT As the world watches millions of refugees whose livelihoods ripped apart by deadly missile attacks, this editorial investigates the forces that lead to the marginalization of populations as they battle for their sovereignty from the margins. It draws upon current publications to offer insights into the transformation of the lives of those residing in world's economic margins. Places that were once economic peripheries are now at the center of the digital transformation of the global economy as it changes how those at the margins can attain their freedoms. Insights from patching development and technologies of the oppressed offer unique insights into ways out of the structural oppression. Insights from these and papers published in this issue offer contributions to what we know about digital transformation in the context of socio-economic and human development and how the battle for the soul of self-sovereignty is won by digital transformation at the margins.
{"title":"Digital transformation at the margins: a battle for the soul of self-sovereignty","authors":"S. Qureshi","doi":"10.1080/02681102.2022.2062291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02681102.2022.2062291","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As the world watches millions of refugees whose livelihoods ripped apart by deadly missile attacks, this editorial investigates the forces that lead to the marginalization of populations as they battle for their sovereignty from the margins. It draws upon current publications to offer insights into the transformation of the lives of those residing in world's economic margins. Places that were once economic peripheries are now at the center of the digital transformation of the global economy as it changes how those at the margins can attain their freedoms. Insights from patching development and technologies of the oppressed offer unique insights into ways out of the structural oppression. Insights from these and papers published in this issue offer contributions to what we know about digital transformation in the context of socio-economic and human development and how the battle for the soul of self-sovereignty is won by digital transformation at the margins.","PeriodicalId":51547,"journal":{"name":"Information Technology for Development","volume":"28 1","pages":"215 - 229"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42957663","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 : 2022-03-13DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2022.2048782
Qianqian Zhang, Xitong Guo, Doug Vogel
ABSTRACT Information and communication technology (ICT) can play a prominent role in human development due to its significant health impact on elderly adults. Unlike previous research, which treats ICT use as a general concept, this study investigates two dimensions of ICT use (active and passive use), and it draws upon self-determination theory to explain the effects of ICT use on life satisfaction as well as health. Additionally, we explore the moderating effects of perceived isolation and ICT self-efficacy, on the relationship between ICT use and life satisfaction. We conducted a survey with 297 valid samples from elderly individuals in China to test our hypotheses. The results show that active ICT use can affect both life satisfaction and health status. We also found that, ICT self-efficacycan moderate the relationship between active/passive ICT use and life satisfaction. However, perceived isolation only moderates the relationship between passive ICT use and life satisfaction.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-02DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2022.2046533
Swapnil Sharma, A. Kar, M. Gupta, Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, M. Janssen
ABSTRACT Governments worldwide invest heavily in digital initiatives to develop information societies with connected and actively engaged citizens, but problems like lacking sustained engagement and quality of participation still plague them. We undertook a systematised literature review on the Scopus and Web of Science (WoS) databases, covering dispersed literature surrounding Digital Citizen Empowerment (DCE) from the past two decades.Categorising the literature under four thematic categories or strategies of DCE: Digital Activism (DA), Multi-channel Service Delivery (MCSD), Participatory Budgeting (PB), and Deliberative Governance (DG) critical comparative analysis is done. A conceptual model of DCE, covering how theories from different inter-disciplinary areas of political, social, and information science influence the development of information societies and DCE is presented. Action points in our conceptual model are mapped to policy objectives targeting improved delivery of empowering policy goals by practitioners, and future research opportunities in the context of DCE are discussed.
世界各国政府在数字倡议方面投入了大量资金，以发展拥有相互联系和积极参与的公民的信息社会，但缺乏持续参与和参与质量等问题仍然困扰着他们。我们对Scopus和Web of Science (WoS)数据库进行了系统的文献综述，涵盖了过去二十年来围绕数字公民赋权(DCE)的分散文献。将文献分为四个主题类别或DCE策略:数字行动主义(DA)，多渠道服务交付(MCSD)，参与式预算(PB)和协商治理(DG)进行了批判性比较分析。一个概念模型，涵盖了政治、社会和信息科学的不同跨学科领域的理论如何影响信息社会和信息技术的发展。我们的概念模型中的行动点被映射到政策目标，旨在通过从业者改善授权政策目标的交付，并讨论了未来在DCE背景下的研究机会。
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Pub Date : 2022-01-10DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2021.2021844
C. Horn, S. Gifford
ABSTRACT Lack of access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is a key determinant of disadvantage among rural and remote communities in the developed and developing world that can limit economic development and obstruct digital forms of social and political participation. In this paper, we discuss how the ability – or inability – to access ICTs affects everyday life in Indigenous communities in remote Sarawak, Malaysia. We focus on social connectedness and on the role of relationships and networks as motivating factors for ICT uptake, for enabling new livelihood strategies and in supporting the maintenance of social networks. The paper is based on data collected between 2015 and 2017 in 20 villages located in the north-east of the state. Methods of data collections included semi-structured interviews, group discussions and participant observations carried out during multiple visits to these villages over a two-year period.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2022.2022881
S. Qureshi
ABSTRACT As the world opens up from the clutches of the pandemic to heightened demand for goods and services, businesses inextricably interconnected globally are coping to meet this demand due to worker shortages. In honor of Peter Keen, this editorial offers insight into how the quest for global talent can be addressed. Our work on how knowledge networking enables innovation through the creation of talent pools and the Global Capability Sourcing (GCS) model are combined to offer a view into addressing this challenge. The GCS explains why wages are declining for some skills while rising for others and asks: what role does a company most effectively play in the global sourcing economy? When workers are free to choose where and when they offer their services, the development imperative comes into effect. The development imperative is freedom of choice and can occur through innovation in talent pools stimulated through knowledge networking. When people have greater freedom and capabilities to improve their knowledge and skills, their incomes increase along with the range of choices and capabilities enjoyed by their households and governments. The papers in this issue add to what is known about how digital competency can be stimulated through investments in ICT training programs, how innovations take place in the development context and insights into conducting context-sensitive research.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2021.2022882
S. Qureshi
When the internet was a figment in most people’s imagination, Peter Keen was paving the way for us to understand the many ways in which our lives would be changed forever. He wrote seminal works and textbooks in the area of Decision Support Systems (DSS), Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Electronic Commerce including Mcommerce. His textbooks on Decision Support Systems gave us an understanding of how organizational decision making needs good information (Keen, 1978; ScottMorton & Keen, 1978). When speaking to my students he would stress that as all commerce is becoming electronic, it is about the relationships that keep businesses alive. The phrase he coined ‘the organization that lives by the online transaction will die by it’ is true today. As his mentee, I knew him to be a prolific writer, speaker who led us in our understanding of the many ways in which ICTs are changing the world we live in. Going through our notes, his words take on a new significance. He told us that just as the strategic global deployment and impacts of ICT have moved to a new phase, so too should ICT research. He noted that research issues center on the extent to which the empirically-observable trends in individual industries and the successes of individual companies represent an evolution in organizational theory that shapes effective practice (Alavi & Keen, 1989; Calloway & Keen, 1996; Earle & Keen, 2000; Keen & El Sawy, 2010). He taught us that as organizations are social systems, the information systems that support them will have to sustain the relationships that enable value to be created (Hackathorn & Keen, 1981; Keen, 1980a, 1980b, 1981b, 1985, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993, 2015). He explained that as long as managers remain nonfluent about IT, the human element will be peripheral rather than central to the choices about and impacts of IT. In their application of telecommunications, managerial and organizational choices can be made to permit simultaneous centralization-with-decentralization of Information Systems (Keen, 1981a, 1985, 1990, 1991, 1993; Keen & Woodman, 1984). He highlighted that since all commerce is electronic, what is apparent is that digital business is driven by the same forces as business in general but that one single factor stands out: value is a function of the choice space. It is in this space that the difference between successful and unsuccessful companies is determined.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2021.2021130
S. Madon, R. RanjiniC., R. Krishnan
ABSTRACT Digital identity platforms are a recent e-governance innovation for improving social assistance programming in the development context, the most well-known of which is India's Aadhaar. While a significant number of studies have accumulated on Aadhaar, so far under-researched is the importance of local government practices and processes in shaping usage of the platform to support social assistance programming. In this paper we theorize how local government intermediation on digital identity platforms can improve social assistance programming through a case study of the Aadhaar-enabled Fertilizer Distribution System (AeFDS) in Andhra Pradesh. Our findings show how the relevance of the platform for low-income farmers depends crucially on the proactive adaptation of the technology by key local government intermediaries. From a policy perspective, this result emphasizes the importance of supporting efforts to acknowledge the role of responsive local government agencies in ensuring that centralized digital identity platforms remain relevant for implementing social assistance programming.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2021.2008850
Alex Adegboye, S. Ojeka, Olawunmi Tolase, Oluwatayo Omoremi, Yvonne Jude-Okeke
ABSTRACT This paper intends to examine how interactions between equal distribution of resources and the information and communication technology (ICT) influence inclusive human development (inequality-adjusted human development) for 81 countries from middle-income countries within the period 2005–2017. We use a double-censored Tobit regression as it accounts for the dependent variable with a limited range. It exhibits the behavior that is consistent with the method of estimation. We employ the instrumental variable (IV) for the independent variables of interest to deal with simultaneity or reverse causality due to endogeneity. In light of established findings for this study, we conclude that equal distribution of public goods such as technologies could play a critical role in promoting inclusive human development. Supplementary policy repercussions are highlighted.
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