Arul Chib

Critical Perspectives on Open Development

Empirical Interrogation of Theory Construction

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Theoretical and empirical analyses of whether open innovations in international development instrumentally advantages poor and marginalized populations.Over the last ten years, open innovations--the sharing of information without access restrictions or cost--have emerged within international development. But do these practices instrumentally advantage poor and marginalized populations? This book examines whether, for whom, and under what circumstances the free, networked, public sharing of information and communication resources contributes (or not) towards a process of positive social transformation. The contributors offer both theoretical a… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Bentley, Caitlin M. / Smith, Matthew L.

ISBN: 978-0-262-54232-6
EAN: 9780262542326
Produktnummer: 34149138
Verlag: MIT Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 288 S.

Über den Autor

Arul Chib is Associate Professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Caitlin M. Bentley is a Lecturer at the Information School at the University of Sheffield and an Honorary Fellow at Australian National University's 3A Institute. Matthew L. Smith is Senior Program Specialist at the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa and coeditor of Open Development: Networked Innovations in International Development (MIT Press and IDRC).