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Mobile apps for the illiterate: Knowledge production and self-learning among the Yoruba peoples in the Republic of Benin
Get PDFMobile phones and web digital tools contribute to the personal development of the individual and his or her capacity to develop initiatives e. g. for economic growth. Yet, many people cannotbenefit from new technologies as digital services in sub-Saharan Africa are mostly configured in foreign languages. Illiteracy and language barriers remain a major challenge for digitalization inAfrica. However, the case of Yoruba illiterates in the central Republic of Benin shows that indigenous people are innovative and create new procedural knowledge. They have developed alternative strategies to benefit from information and communications technology (ICT). Based on approximately 50 interviews with traders, peasants, art craft (wo)men, and members of convents, my ethnographic research explores how the Yoruba people of Benin utilize mobile phones in their mother tongue.Mobile phones and web digital tools contribute to the personal development of the individual and his or her capacity to develop initiatives e. g. for economic growth. Yet, many people cannotbenefit from new technologies as digital services in sub-Saharan Africa are mostly configured in foreign languages. Illiteracy and language barriers remain a major challenge for digitalization inAfrica. However, the case of Yoruba illiterates in the central Republic of Benin shows that indigenous people are innovative and create new procedural knowledge. They have developed alternative strategies to benefit from information and communications technology (ICT). Based on approximately 50 interviews with traders, peasants, art craft (wo)men, and members of convents, my ethnographic research explores how the Yoruba people of Benin utilize mobile phones in their mother tongue
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Get PDFSimulation of innovation dynamics in the context of the energy transition: Advice-oriented combination of empirical and social science simulation models
Get PDFWie können Modelle zur Simulation von Akteursverhalten bei der Politikberatung zur Entwicklung von Maßnahmen zur Unterstützung der Genese und Diffusion nachhaltiger Technologien eingesetzt werden? Für Analysen zur Technologiegenese existiert bereits ein entsprechendes Simulationsmodell (SKIN). Mit Blick auf dieses Modell wird diskutiert, wie sich durch die Verbindung von Empirie und Simulation die Robustheit der Simulationsergebnisse steigern lässt. Für Akteursanalysen zur Technologiediffusion müssen entsprechende Simulationsmodelle erst noch entwickelt werden. Hierfür werden erste konzeptionelle Überlegungen diskutiert.How can models for the simulation of actor behavior be used in policy advice on measures to support the development and diffusion of sustainable technologies? A corresponding simulation model already exists for analyses of technology development (SKIN). With reference to this model, it is discussed how the combination of empirical and simulation methods can increase the robustness of the simulation results. For actor analyses on technology diffusion, corresponding simulation models have yet to be developed. The article outlines some conceptual foundations for the development of such models
”Whose bread I eat, his song I sing”? Technology assessment and its clients
Get PDFWeimer und Vining (1999) unterscheiden drei Rollen, die WissenschafterInnen in Politikberatung einnehmen können: den objective technician, den issue advocate und den client\u27s advocate. Dieser Beitrag widmet sich jener Rolle, die in der gegenwärtigen Diskussion kaum reflektiert wird, aber dennoch für die Normativität von Technikfolgenabschätzung (TA) relevant ist: dem client’s advocate. Basierend auf Daten aus einer empirischen internen Erhebung von Praxen, Konstellationen und Paradigmen der Politikberatung am österreichischen Institut für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung (ITA), stellen wir (1) das in den Projekten des Instituts realisierte Portfolio an Geldgebern bzw. Auftraggebern dar, setzen es (2) in Bezug zu den in den Projekten des ITA angesprochenen Issues und zu Ergebnissen aus vier projektspezifischen Fallstudien und formulieren (3) offene Fragen an die TA-Praxis und TA-Community.Weimer and Vining (1999) discern three roles for scientific policy advisers: the objective technician, the issue advocate, and the client’s advocate. This contribution focuses on the latter – a role that is rarely reflected upon in current discussions about technology assessment (TA) practice. Based on empirical data on the practices, constellations, and paradigms prevalent in policy advice activities at the Austrian Institute of Technology Assessment (ITA), we (1) present the portfolio and characteristics of the institute’s clients, (2) relate these to the issues addressed in the institute’s projects and to four project-specific case studies, and (3) present open questions to the practice and community of TA pertaining to its relation to its clients
