Book chapter
The Local and the Global in ICTD Initiatives Analyzing Implementers and Audiences, a Case Study of Voice of Kibera
Locating Emerging Media, pp.65-83
Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture, Routledge
01/01/2016
DOI: 10.4324/9780203387771-10
Abstract
Implementing information and communication technologies for development (ICTD) is an area in which the global and the local inevitably intersect. Although the trend is beginning to change, typically technologies that were developed elsewhere, mostly in Western countries, are brought in to developing countries by governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), or others working in the development sector and then applied to local development issues. These issues range from preventing the spread of HIV and AIDS to informing farmers about market prices for their goods to educating women and girls in rural communities. The application of ICTs to development problems is expansive
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Local and the Global in ICTD Initiatives Analyzing Implementers and Audiences, a Case Study of Voice of Kibera
- Creators
- Melissa Tully - University of Iowa
- Contributors
- G R Halegoua (Editor)B Aslinger (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Locating Emerging Media, pp.65-83
- Series
- Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
- DOI
- 10.4324/9780203387771-10
- Publisher
- Routledge; ABINGDON
- Number of pages
- 19
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2016
- Academic Unit
- Center for Social Science Innovation; Injury Prevention Research Center; Public Policy Center (Archive); School of Journalism and Mass Communication
- Record Identifier
- 9984285651802771
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