The Rise of Computing Research in East Africa: The Relationship Between Funding, Capacity and Research Community in a Nascent Field

Harsh, Matthew; Bal, Ravtosh; Wetmore, Jameson M.; Zachary, G. Pascal; Holden, Kerry

doi:10.1007/s11024-017-9341-1

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“…La búsqueda de la ciencia prioritariamente tiene lugar en las universidades (Vasbinder, 2017), esto implica generar las capacidades para investigar en estas instituciones. La necesidad de recursos para generar las capacidades de investigación obliga a las universidades, independientemente de su condición, a divulgar información a los diversos stakeholders (Arechavala-Vargas y Sanchez-Cervantes, 2017; Mtawa et al, 2016;Harsh et al, 2018;Kohoutek et al, 2017;Powell y Dusdal, 2017;Huenneke et al, 2017;Kotsemir y Shashnov, 2017;Brownson et al, 2017;Rhoads et al, 2017).…”

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Determinantes de la divulgación de información en las universidades Latinoamericanas para un buen gobierno corporativo

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<p>El sentido público de las universidades hace que la sociedad presione por obtener niveles de representatividad en sus gobiernos corporativos. Un buen gobierno corporativo precisa aumentar los niveles de información y las universidades latinoamericanas tienen un bajo nivel de divulgación de la información. En la investigación se propone y verifican los factores que afectan los niveles de divulgación voluntaria de la información que emiten las universidades latinoamericanas a los diferentes grupos de interés. Se estudiaron 219 universidades de cinco países latinoamericanos, reconocidas dentro de las 500 mejores instituciones de la Región, se utilizó un modelo de regresión lineal múltiple para testear las proposiciones. Los resultados son potentes y significativos con implicaciones teóricas, empíricas y de política pública.</p>

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Determinantes de la divulgación de información en las universidades Latinoamericanas para un buen gobierno corporativo

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“…This paper offers three brief examples. Wendland's (2010) ethnography of student lives in a Malawian medical school, the Whites' (2015) anthropological reflections on working at Gulu university, and Harsh et al's (2018) study of East African computing science, all describe everyday practices of research, scholarship and training. None start from an imagined normative vision of how African universities ought to work.…”

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“…A third ethnographic example (Harsh et al 2018) comes from a comparative three-year study of two East African computer science departments at Makerere University and the University of Nairobi. They describe two dynamic sites of knowledge production that combine 'local' research autonomy, regional priorities and 'a degree of global competency in scientific and technological activity' (ibid, 36).…”

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The epistemic politics of ‘academography’: navigating competing representations of Africa’s university futures

Mills

2020

Globalisation, Societies and Education

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This paper investigates the epistemic politics at work in radically contrasting academic representations of African university futures. Euro-American policy entrepreneurs and research funders call for major investments in Africa's scientific research training capacity to strengthen the continent's integration into a global knowledge system. Meanwhile, African social scientists and humanities scholars critique the epistemological hegemony of 'Western' models of the academy, and call for the decolonisation of African universities.This paper sets out a three-step approach to dealing with the politicization of 'academography' (Thorkelson 2016) in this decolonial moment. The first step is to acknowledge how epistemic power relations shape all analytical moves. The second is to recognize that 'generative antagonisms' (Burawoy 2004) are inherent to disciplinary knowledge production. The third is to develop an ethnographic sensitivity to everyday academic practice within these institutional worlds and epistemic cultures. Together these moves offer space for dialogue between different visions of African higher education.

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“…Through changes in admissions policies, tuition fees and financial administration, universities in East Africa are meeting the demand for education in marketable subjects, such as computer science (Harsh et al, 2018). Makerere University and the University of Nairobi are constantly transforming themselves in response to neoliberal policies linking education more directly with economic growth, 6 which serve as universal blueprints for institution building and knowledge production.…”

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Situating science in Africa: The dynamics of computing research in Nairobi and Kampala

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Since the turn of the century, both Kampala and Nairobi have experienced a dramatic growth of computer science research, challenging accepted views of science in Africa. We deploy qualitative methods to follow active computer science researchers, graduate students, policy makers, administrators and entrepreneurs, in order to understand how computer science is enacted in these two cities. Our analysis focuses on four interrelated areas of labor, institutions, identities and scale. We illustrate the dynamics and frictions of computer science research across these areas, revealing the interlacing of moral economies of science and the political economy of higher education, the management of precarious professional lives and desire to get research done,

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The Rise of Computing Research in East Africa: The Relationship Between Funding, Capacity and Research Community in a Nascent Field

Cited by 17 publications

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Determinantes de la divulgación de información en las universidades Latinoamericanas para un buen gobierno corporativo

Determinantes de la divulgación de información en las universidades Latinoamericanas para un buen gobierno corporativo

The epistemic politics of ‘academography’: navigating competing representations of Africa’s university futures

Situating science in Africa: The dynamics of computing research in Nairobi and Kampala

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