What is meant by DEVELOPMENT ?

The aim of this blog post is to identify different perceptions/views on development. In other words,  what  development is meant  for various people.

One facet of development is economic development- wealth. Another facet is human development such as life expectancy, education level etc.. Is that all ? Can there be many forms? What about values and morals? And culture? Do we want to maintain an individual's culture or form a global culture ?

working areas

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has a major impact on economic and societal development. Though developing, emerging, and transitional economies play an increasingly important role in the global market, mainstream information systems research continues to focus on the relatively small group of countries with highly developed economies. The business, social, and legal environments of developing, emerging, and transitional economies often mandate that ICT implementations and uses are dissimilar from those in highly developed regions. Practices and models that have been tested in highly developed countries may not be applicable in the global setting. The intention of this track is to encourage more research and publications on ICT focused on developing and emerging markets and communities.

Interesting Research Questions

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1. To provide a comprehensive survey of and selected analysis of
existing theories and explanations of how and why ICT-enabled
facilities such as telecentres centres work, and the way they help
address policy goals in social and digital inclusion.

2. To provide a resource to strengthen the theoretical basis for
future research "Measuring the impact of eInclusion actors on Digital
Literacy, Skills and Inclusion goals of the Digital Agenda for
Europe";

3. To extract conclusions and make recommendations on the
applicability of this knowledge to future research "Measuring the
impact of eInclusion actors on Digital Literacy, Skills and Inclusion
goals of the Digital Agenda for Europe ".

Specialists in the domain

Disclaimer - This is only a personal collection of interesting comments, questions, and inquires made by others. My contribution is limited to collecting, identifying, organizing, and publishing them. Respective authors hold copyrights for their contents.

Who are these specialists

Social Informatics (SI) is defined as the field of study that seeks to understand how the computational sciences and digital technologies shape society and human experience, and how society and culture, in turn, shape the development of science and technology.

Community Informatics (CI)

ICT4D

Development Informatics (DI)

Collective Intelligence (CI) research investigates the design of infrastructures to enable collectives to think and act intelligently, and intriguingly, more intelligently than individuals. Technologies such as idea management or argumentation tools, blogs, wikis, chats, forums, Q&A sites, and social networks provide unprecedented opportunities for entire communities or organizations to express a discourse and act at a massive scale, but very little is known on:
· When does effective discourse help a collective outperform individuals?
· What functions should the next generation of social platforms support?
· How can we allow communities to efficiently manage many diverse ideas, argument, and deliberate?
· What patterns in discourse and action can be modelled computationally?

Mobile for Development in Sri Lanka

This blog is all about how mobiles are being used for development in Sri Lanka. While answering the main question, we have to understand several related issues. For example, mobile coverage in SL, affordability, kinds of mobile based applications and their usage. A list of issues to be discussed in this forum are

1. Availability and affordability
2. Awareness and knowledge of using mobiles - mobile literacy
3. All sort of applications
   
4. Application usage, cost, and benefits
   
5. Contribution of those applications for improving quality of life
6. Related issues such as privacy, security, and legal issues