Community Informatics and Information Systems: Can They Be Better Connected?

Stillman, Larry; Linger, Henry

doi:10.1080/01972240903028706

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“…This work will be used to align ongoing work by Stillman, Linger, and others at Monash to unpack the conundrum of Information Systems and Community Informatics: that the 'social' and 'technical', because of their fundamentally different world views and orientations are exceptionally difficult to integrate in design, use, and evaluative methodologies (Stillman and Linger, 2009). A comparison of different approaches to the social and technical, incorporating the Living Labs perspective was also briefly outlined for future exploration.…”

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“…The same comment is relevant to socio-technical research, however well-intentioned, where the concept of the 'individual' and 'community' has lacked multi-disciplinary depth and nuance (Stillman and Linger, 2009). We therefore aim to explore ways of solving the problem of working across the ontological and epistemological boundaries that exist between IS designers and those focused on broader social processes in which technology plays a significant part, because it influences the innovation process, whether in the social or technological domains that can be outlined for different IS processes (Hirschheim et al, 1996).…”

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Digital Doorway: Social‐Technical Innovation for High‐Needs Communities

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Herselman²,

Marais

et al. 2012

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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The application of the Living Lab (LL) approach to social-technical innovation to the Digital Doorway Initiative in the informal settlement of Zandspruit near Johannesburg is outlined in the context of the initiative's evolution from an educational project to a broader community innovation initiative. The relationship between different stakeholders is explored in a theoretical and practical sense as a future research and practice challenge for both the study of ICTs in society (in this case, a poor community), and the fostering of community-driven innovation. The activity also offers a research challenge for understanding the cultural transformations that are necessary for bringing about more effective integration between technical and social-technical viewpoints about design and research in a social context. Current and projected community-based research activities are also outlined, including the development of a project in Australia for high-needs indigenous communities.

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Digital Doorway: Social‐Technical Innovation for High‐Needs Communities

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Herselman²,

Marais

et al. 2012

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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“…Community informatics (CI) researchers study the design and implementation of information communication technologies (ICTs) in local communities [27]. It's an approach that begins with the needs of local communities and considers issues of social justice -such as race, power, class and disability [27].…”

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Design Teams as Change Agents: Diplomatic Design in the Open Data Movement

Maruyama

Douglas

Robertson

2013

2013 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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“…According to Gurstein (2004), CI is the application of ICT to enable and empower community processes. Stillman and Linger (2009) maintain that CI has a dual focus: first, the conduct of research about the relationship between the design of ICTs and local communities, and second, the implementation of ICT projects in local communities. The purpose of this article is to investigate the research publication challenges researchers in DI experience.…”

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“…Community informatics (CI) is a research domain related to DI (Stillman & Linger, 2009). According to Gurstein (2004), CI is the application of ICT to enable and empower community processes.…”

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Development Informatics Research and the Challenges in Representing the Voice of Developing Country Researchers: A South African View

Biljon¹

2016

Afr. j. inf. commun. (Online)

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Indigenous or local researchers from developing countries have not made a leading contribution to development informatics (DI) or information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) research. This is noteworthy since these researchers should be in a prominent position to contribute to the discourse, where context knowledge is regarded as vital. Furthermore, a dependence on foreign scholarly direction can create a gap between research and reality in a way that affects the success of ICT programmes in African countries. Extant literature highlights this problem, but most studies stop short of considering the causes and proposing how to amplify the voice of developing country researchers. This paper documents the ICT4D/DI research discourse that took place during four seminal academic events in South Africa during the period 2012 to 2015. Those discussions are presented and analysed here to contribute to the wider discourse on ICT research and practice in developing countries, with the aim of enhancing the research contribution of developing countries. An interpretivist, involved researcher analysis of the workshop reports is conducted to gain an improved understanding of the South African ICT4D/DI researcher's challenges to proportional participation. While this study takes a South African perspective, many of the findings could apply to researchers in other developing countries.

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Community Informatics and Information Systems: Can They Be Better Connected?

Cited by 30 publications

References 22 publications

Digital Doorway: Social‐Technical Innovation for High‐Needs Communities

Digital Doorway: Social‐Technical Innovation for High‐Needs Communities

Design Teams as Change Agents: Diplomatic Design in the Open Data Movement

Development Informatics Research and the Challenges in Representing the Voice of Developing Country Researchers: A South African View

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