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All notes for the Information and Communication Technology for Development course; this allows you to write your end portfolio

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  • February 23, 2022
  • February 23, 2022
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ICT4D: Information and communication
technology for Development
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Lecture 1
Introduction

why ICT4D

huge poverty in the world, there is a need for development/growth. ICT will help hereby.

sending ICT over border, for example unused computers. But this is not that easy to help the
poverty

might safe economic growth in country but not the real problem: poverty. & it increases the waste
→ e-waste

techno positivism; tech will help everything but this is not always the case

this course: ICT can make difference, but you have to think about it in a careful way. Not easy
solution but difficult solutions.

what is ICT4D

ICT: information communication technology; everyhting to communicate.

electrical ICT: any entity that processes or communication data in electrical form

digital ICT: an entity that processes or comunicates digital data



different scopes of development:

1: agenda-specific development → Particular progressive changes in a developing country

2: geography specific development → any progressive change in a developing country

3: generic development → progressive change in a society

ICT4D is scope 1 + digital ICT

richard heeks book ICT4D



what is different about dev.countries?



ICT4D: Information and communication technology for Development 1

, uncertainty (electric for example)

resource constraints (there might be no resources we need to build ICT)

inequality (your ICT can deepener this; e.g. gender )

institutional differences (languages/culture)

localism



the definition of developing country is not agreed on; but for example avg. income.



critique, faces, etc




ICT4D: Information and communication technology for Development 2

, most of the ICT thinking is from social perspective, but we need from technical perspective.

exploratory research on potential of existing technology

look for innovation and challenges, new tech/adapt tech

maybe small tech is the answer




research we are good in the vu research:




ICT4D: Information and communication technology for Development 3

, Lecture 2
how to do ICT4D in the field

observations :




ICT4D: Information and communication technology for Development 4

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