Title:
Innovation and its Social Impacts: The Role of Ethnography in the Evaluation and Assessment of ICTD Projects

dc.contributor.author Parthasarathy, Balaji en_US
dc.contributor.author Srinivasan, Janaki en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename International Institute of Information Technology (Bangalore, India) en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename University of California, Berkeley. School of Information en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2010-10-19T21:05:39Z
dc.date.available 2010-10-19T21:05:39Z
dc.date.issued 2006-10
dc.description Presented at the GLOBELICS 2006 conference in India during 4-7 October 2006. en_US
dc.description Session I-3: Innovations in New Technologies: IT and BT en_US
dc.description.abstract Innovations in Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) are being increasingly deployed in a range of sectors, from government to medicine, to foster social change, especially in less affluent regions. Even as there emerges an inter-disciplinary field of ICT for Development (ICTD), there are many conceptual issues that need clarification. One such is methodological, or the question of how to evaluate and assess the impact of ICTs on developmental outcomes. This paper will argue that there are at least three aspects to assessing ICTD projects: ICTs, development, and the question of ICTD for whom. After identifying the diverse disciplinary perspectives that the study of each aspect demands, and highlighting the methodological pluralism that such disciplinary diversity will demand, the paper will discuss the relevance of ethnographic techniques for assessing ICTD projects. It will also use the case of two ICTD projects from India to argue why ethnographic techniques are crucial to understanding their outcomes. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/35360
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries GLOBELICS04. Plenary Session I: Innovation Policy, Competitiveness and Economic Development en_US
dc.subject Development en_US
dc.subject Ethnographic techniques en_US
dc.subject Information and Communications Technologies en_US
dc.subject Social and economic development en_US
dc.title Innovation and its Social Impacts: The Role of Ethnography in the Evaluation and Assessment of ICTD Projects en_US
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local.contributor.corporatename School of Public Policy
local.contributor.corporatename Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
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