“If you take away my phone, you take away my life...” Community Narratives about the Social Implications of Mobile phone Usage for Livelihood Security

Nampijja, Dianah

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-11434-3_40

Mobile Technologies and Applications for the Internet of Things

2019

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-11434-3_40

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“If you take away my phone, you take away my life...” Community Narratives about the Social Implications of Mobile phone Usage for Livelihood Security

Dianah Nampijja

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Access to Learning Through Mobiles

Nampijja

Øyhus

Webersik

et al. 2021

Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide, and Regional Development

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The common myth that mobile learning cannot propel in a rural setting is null and void. The influx of modern ICTs like mobile technologies can revolutionize information access among the less privileged in many African communities. Using the Actor-Network Theory as a methodological tool, the chapter explores opportunities of increasing knowledge access through mobiles, by understanding the networks involved in farmer's mobile learning practice, with reference to Uganda. The chapter reveals that mobile technologies offer affordable individual and group learning opportunities to smallholder farmers. Learning is a socially constructed activity, where farmers with access to ICTs like mobile phones share knowledge among those with no access. Through a socio-technical discussion, technological initiatives ought to be pro-people where farmers' needs are key considerations in the mLearning actor-network. For sustainable impacts, all actors need to work collaboratively, negotiate different realities, and appreciate the local challenges within which mobile technologies can support learning.

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Access to Learning Through Mobiles

Nampijja

Øyhus

Webersik

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Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide, and Regional Development

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