Building Capacities: The Resurgence of Indo-African Technoeconomic Cooperation

Duclos, Vincent

doi:10.1080/14736489.2012.731906

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“…Fourth, the rapid growth of the IT (information technology) sector, 'in view of its alleged aptitude to foster capacity-building, inclusive growth, and knowledge transference', can help in escalation of India's efforts in expanding cooperation to other countries (Duclos, 2012). Fifth, India is widely seen as championing and providing a range of public goods and 'has the potential to offer more' (Price, 2011, p. 1), and through this, India can become a big power in the international arena.…”

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“…It also aims at creation of India-Africa Virtual University (IAVU) intended to meet demand in Africa for higher education in Indian institutions, by providing 10,000 new scholarships to African students. The IAVU project with an estimated cost of US$ 3.5 million and annual cost of over US$ 0.5 million, envisages formations of academic programmes, promotion of collaboration in distance education, coordination of special action plans and strengthening of the consultation mechanisms mediating education exchanges between India and African nations (Duclos, 2012).…”

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South-South Cooperation: India’s Programme of Development Assistance – Nature, Size and Functioning

Tilak¹

2016

Post-Education-Forall and Sustainable Development Paradigm: Structural Changes With Diversifying Actors and Norms

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South-South Cooperation: India’s Programme of Development Assistance – Nature, Size and Functioning

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2016

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“…Above all, the Pan-African e-Network is, as its slogan states, a 'shining example of South-South cooperation'. As such, it illustrates the Indian state's renewed vision of cooperation, coalescing around a revival in Indo-African trade in strategic sectors, among which the ICT and hospital sectors play a leading role (Duclos, 2012;Duclos, 2014). In sum, the state's modus operandi in terms of cooperation is to facilitate transnational trade.…”

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“…Driven by the leadership of the World Health Organization (WHO), local governments, NGOs, and private sector players, the last few years have seen the emergence of an array of similar initiatives (WHO, 2005;WHO, 2010). Networks have been implemented in various contexts such as natural disaster and war zones (Merrell et al, 2008), humanitarian settings (Wootton et al, 2012), or as part of broader development schemes (Miscione, 2007;Duclos, 2012).…”

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The Map and the Territory: An Ethnographic Study of the Low Utilisation of a Global eHealth Network

Duclos

2016

Journal of Information Technology

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Recent years were marked by the implementation of many eHealth projects using information and communication technologies to provide health services in developing countries. While generating great expectations, these projects remain poorly documented and available data suggest high failure rates. This raises a practical question: How are such eHealth networks to be effectively designed and implemented? This paper addresses this question. Specifically, it presents an ethnographic study of the Pan-African e-Network, a project which connects many hospitals all across India and Africa, providing medical teleconsultations and distance learning services. The study investigates the low utilisation of the network, an issue undermining its potential and efficiency. Factors contributing to this situation include communication barriers, the presumed ego of doctors, poor awareness of the project, and a lack of flexibility to work with the specificities of the connected sites. Above all, these factors point towards a dichotomous approach across the project's design and implementation, and taking two distinct yet related forms: (a) an ontological divide between technical and ‘non-technical’ domains; (b) a political sorting out of what is and what is not the project, aimed at neutralising and accounting for heterogeneous processes and practices. In both cases, low utilisation reveals tensions between processes of closure and control, and the openness of a life that will not be contained. Ultimately, this paper intends to destabilise binary modes of thinking as they crystallise oppositions between design and implementation, project and context, technical and social worlds, efficacy and improvisation, mastery and unruliness, map and territory.

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“…A bold technological enterprise, the network relies on a transnational nexus of landline and satellite connectivity, connecting sites in more than thirty countries. It illustrates a revival of IndoAfrican trade and cooperation, with a specific emphasis on healthcare (Duclos 2012(Duclos , 2014. Funded by the Indian state, the public-private partnership was designed as a 'win-win scenario': African patients gain access to valuable expertise while Indian hospitals increase their presence in relatively untapped markets.…”

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Global eHealth

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2015

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Using the case of the Pan-African e-Network, this Think Piece describes some of the practical and theoretical challenges presented by eHealth. At the junction of 'networked thinking' and clinical work, human lives come to matter in new ways, taking shape as objects of knowledge and intervention. The terrain on which this is happening is discursive, and deeply enmeshed with living and technical systems. Studying eHealth reveals how contemporary arrangements create new spaces in which lives are cared for. As such, it is inseparable from wider questions being raised by global eHealth practices: How are spaces of care to be designed in the era of global connectivity? What are the emergent relations between space, information technology, and the government of care on a global scale? Keywords telemedicine, global health, networks Medicine Anthropology Theory 155Networked thinking, or the everywhere-ness of healthcare Global health is being transformed by a proliferation of screens, interfaces, and networksinfrastructures that link bodies, knowledge, and care practices in new spatial and temporal configurations. These connect patients, medical practitioners, hospitals, and laypeople, either through private networks or the Internet, and affect the circulation of medical knowledge, expertise, and data. From network science literature to everyday public health settings, digital connectivity has become highly correlated with access to care and protection against healthrelated risk.eHealth champion Gunther Eysenbach (2001, e20) famously argued that eHealth is 'not only a technical development, but a state-of-mind, a way of thinking, an attitude, and a commitment for networked, global thinking'. Such an 'attitude' translates into especially high expectations regarding network connectivity and its impact on global health. eHealth has been referred to as the 'next breakthrough in health systems improvement in developing nations ' (Gerber et al. 2010); 'a great equalizer between rich and poor, healthy and ill' (Rockefeller Foundation 2010, 51); and a 'life-saving tool' (Vital Wave Consulting 2012).The notion of eHealth as a 'game changer' in global health is directly linked to a vision of the digital, connected clinic, with its instant availability, synchronicity, and 'everywhere-ness' of health data, information, and, ultimately, care. In such a clinic, network connectivity is expected to reduce the amount of both economic and energetic expenses required to access medical care and expertise. It is expected to render distance meaningless and to break down barriers to the provision of health care (Mort, May and Williams 2003;Bashshur and Shannon 2009). In a world where people are apparently 'dying for lack of knowledge' (Global Healthcare Information Network 2014), this envisioned digital clinic is anticipated to 'reach out and heal someone ' (Cartwright 2000), no matter where they are physically located.The suggestion that digital networks reduce obstacles related to distance is not unique to eHealth. Over the last few...

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Building Capacities: The Resurgence of Indo-African Technoeconomic Cooperation

Cited by 12 publications

References 8 publications

South-South Cooperation: India’s Programme of Development Assistance – Nature, Size and Functioning

South-South Cooperation: India’s Programme of Development Assistance – Nature, Size and Functioning

The Map and the Territory: An Ethnographic Study of the Low Utilisation of a Global eHealth Network

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