209 research outputs found
The Evolution of ICT4D:Content, Context, and Process
Get PDFIn this chapter, we interview Shirin Madon, Professor of Information Communication Technologies and Socioeconomic Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). With her long-term position as a key figure in ICT4D research, Shirin engages us in a conversation that details the journey of ICT4D as a research field, starting from the distinctive features of the early days and observing, through the conversation, how these have been increasingly discussed and problematised. The conversation traverses the ways in which the development discourse has evolved over the years, the routes through which it has been translated into practice, and the role of international funding institutions in shaping the course of the ICT4D field. We conclude with a focus on the future, looking at how, among other aspects, non-ICT interventions have become active participants in the landscape of digital development, inspiring new paths of engagement for ICT4D researchers.</p
Azadeh Westergaard Flora Stieglitz Straus Award 2025 Acceptance Speech
No full textAuthor Azadeh Westergaard wins the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award 2025 for The One and Only Googoosh: Iran\u27s Beloved Superstar from Bank Street College Children\u27s Book Committee
The Flora Stieglitz Straus Award
Established in 1994 to honor Flora Straus, who led the Children’s Book Committee for many years, this award is presented annually for a distinguished work of nonfiction that serves as an inspiration to young people. Flora Straus stood for the values of courage, hard work, truth, and beauty while adapting to a changing world. She believed that books about varying cultures enrich and help all children in their growth. She championed diverse opinions and points of view and was a person of high principles, unfailing courtesy, and deep understanding.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cbc_awards/1021/thumbnail.jp
Design for Water Justice: Co-developing Tools for Equitable Cities
Get PDFThe edited volume Critical ICT4D highlights the need for a paradigm change in theorising, designing and researching Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D)
Critical ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development)
Get PDFThe edited volume Critical ICT4D highlights the need for a paradigm change in theorising, designing, and researching Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D). Engaging authors from the Majority World and entering a process of restoring epistemic justice in knowledge production and ownership, the text: Reflects on the histories and narratives around development programmes, their deep-rooted socio-political background, and the power relations integrated into or induced by such measures Problematises the current scholarship and practices through decolonial and pluralistic approaches built with an explicit perspective of resisting epistemic violence Constructs justice-enacting engagements of technologies with society. Offering thematic discussions in many development sectors with up-to-date case studies informed by recent research in the field, it sheds light on constructive contributions of critical ICT4D research. Written in accessible language, the book will appeal to postgraduate students, fellow researchers, policymakers in the fields of sociology, development studies, STS, critical data studies, surveillance studies, international relations, public administration, and information systems
The violence of algorithmic systems in social policy in Colombia:(Re) localising the digital welfare state in the postcolonial context
No full textThis chapter analyzes the case of the systems used by the Colombian State to define who is legible for social rights. The chapter argues that these systems are not simply a product of technological determinism, but rather they reflect the historical tendencies of structural violence in Colombia. While global research on digital technology in social security often spotlights nations in the Global North, this chapter directs attention to the postcolonial context. The chapter traces the history of these systems from the Sisben system, which was used to classify communities in the 1990s, to the Household Social Registry, which is currently used to select beneficiaries for social programs. The chapter argues that these systems have all been used to depoliticize the claims of marginalized communities and to render their social rights as a product of benevolence or good luck. The chapter concludes by arguing that the Colombian case shows that the datification of social programs is not simply a product of a surveillance state or the mindless implementation of digital technologies, but rather it is a complex phenomenon that reflects the historical and political context of each country. By offering a localized perspective, this chapter seeks to pluralize the discourse and counter universalist claims, ultimately advocating for localized actions of resistance against systemic violence
Authoritarian Smart City: A Research Agenda
Get PDFDespite the prevalence of smart city discourse across many disciplines, governance systems, and policy-making bodies, its conceptual foundations are based either on semi-/democratic political constellations or deemed apolitical. This research agenda highlights the embeddedness of any smart city agenda within a more extensive political regime. Furthermore, the research agenda focuses on the authoritarian socio-technical imaginaries and their role in shaping smart city policies, implementation, and governance. The research agenda also highlights the research on authoritarian surveillance and its interconnection with authoritarian smart city conceptualisation. Furthermore, it offers three research areas for authoritarian surveillance: authoritarian practices in democratic contexts, the use of surveillance technologies for maintaining autocratic power, and authoritarian structure and governance of platform corporations. Finally, similar to critical voices in critical data studies and the field of information and communication technology for development, the research agenda aims to demystify the prevalent assumption of the good smart city that fixes all injustices that socio-political endeavours have not achieved. It argues that every technologically enabled tool or platform reflects the political constellations in which it is embedded and affects and produces new socio-technical interlinkages that could never be apolitical
Corrigendum to “The association of food consumption and nutrient intake with endometriosis risk in Iranian women: A case-control study” [Int J Reprod BioMed 2019; 17: 661-670]
Get PDFThe authors have been informed of an error that occurred on page 661 in which the word “Iran” has been missed in the affiliation of the third author (Azadeh Mottaghi), which should be corrected as: “Research Center for Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases, Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran”. On behalf of the author, the publisher wishes to apologize for this error. The online version of article has been updated on 15 November 2022 and can be found at https://doi.org/10.18502/ijrm.v17i9.5102
Follow the Thing: Data
Get PDFThis research starts its journey from a video that failed to be published during the 2009 uprising in Iran. By following data outside the common trajectories of data circulation in the global North, this paper offers new geographical and data imaginations neglected by the universalised understandings of data and its political economy. Consequently, data’s behaviour as a thing is thoroughly investigated in the “follow the thing tradition” by scrutinising data as a commodity, its meanings and its associations. Using actor-network-theory, the paper highlights data’s open and contested character as well as the breakdowns throughout its journey. Following an uncirculated video via its traces sheds light on data’s agency in evoking different assemblages and spatialities. It also reflects on the epistemological importance of not treating the Southern data as exceptional and calls for a theoretical landscape that does not leave many realities of data out in its homogenised universal narrative
Spatial Integration and Asymmetric Price Transmission in Selected Iranian Chicken Markets
Get PDFThis study evaluates pattern of price adjustments in selected spatially separated chicken markets in Iran using weekly price data from 1998:17 to 2006:41 including 441 observations in total. The results of Tsay’s test suggest that threshold behavior characterize spatial price linkages among the selected markets that imply on using the threshold models. We use the multi-dimensional (two and three regime) threshold cointegration of TAR and M-TAR models. Our results confirm the different speed of adjustment in response to positive and negative shocks in every case. We also utilize impulse response function to investigate dynamic patterns of adjustments in response to shocks.Spatial Integration, Price Transmission, Threshold Autoregression, Chicken, International Relations/Trade, Marketing,
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Implications for Politics, Territory, and Governance
Get PDF10.1080/21622671.2023.2256119Territory, Politics, Governance1181519-153
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