Information and Communication Technologies for Development : 14th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2017, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, May 22-24, 2017, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2017, held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in May 2017. The 60 revised full papers and 8 short papers presented together with 3 keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from 118 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: large scale and complex information systems for development; women empowerment and gender justice; social mechanisms of ICT-enabled development; the data revolution and sustainable development goals; critical perspectives on ICT and open innovation for development; the contribution of practice theories to ICT for development; agile development; indigenous local community grounded ICT developments; global sourcing and development; sustainability in ICT4D; and information systems development and implementation in Southeast Asia. Also included are a graduate student track, current issues and notes. The chapter ‘An Analysis of Accountability Concepts for Open Development’ is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com. Front Matter....Pages I-XVII Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Facilitating Social Harmony Through ICTs....Pages 3-9 Theoretical Framing of ICT4D Research....Pages 10-23 Design, Needs, and Aspirations in International Development....Pages 24-32 Front Matter....Pages 33-33 Leveraging Software Platform Capabilities to Support HIV (ART) Treatment Adherence Management: A Case from Sierra Leone....Pages 35-46 Patchworks of Logistics Management Information Systems: Challenges or Solutions for Developing Countries?....Pages 47-58 Health Information Systems in Indonesia: Understanding and Addressing Complexity....Pages 59-70 Open Source Software Ecosystems in Health Sector: A Case Study from Sri Lanka....Pages 71-80 A Framework to Assess and Address Human Capacities Needed to Leverage Open Source Software Platforms in Developing Countries....Pages 81-92 The Role of Global Standardization Communities in Shaping National Health Information Architectures....Pages 93-103 From Abstraction to Implementation: Can Computational Thinking Improve Complex Real-World Problem Solving? A Computational Thinking-Based Approach to the SDGs....Pages 104-116 Front Matter....Pages 117-117 Telecentres Use in Rural Communities and Women Empowerment: Case of Western Cape....Pages 119-134 Young Women in South African Call Centres: A Case of Women’s Empowerment or a Repackaging of the Conventional Global Factory?....Pages 135-143 Front Matter....Pages 145-145 Living in the Limits: Migration and Information Practices of Undocumented Latino Migrants....Pages 147-158 Critical Realism and ICT4D Research....Pages 159-170 A Spatial Perspective of Innovation and Development: Innovation Hubs in Zambia and the UK....Pages 171-181 Methodological Approach for Identifying Mechanisms in ICT4D: A Critical Realism Perspective....Pages 182-193 Participatory Technologies: Affordances for Development....Pages 194-205 Amplifying Positive Deviance with ICT....Pages 206-217 Front Matter....Pages 219-219 Open Data Reuse, Recycling and Sharing as Potential Solution to Data and Information Resource Inadequacies....Pages 221-231 A Critical and Systemic Consideration of Data for Sustainable Development in Africa....Pages 232-241 Front Matter....Pages 219-219 Data Governance: A Challenge for Merged and Collaborating Institutions in Developing Countries....Pages 242-253 Front Matter....Pages 255-255 Collaborative Social Innovation in the Hybrid Domain....Pages 257-268 Digital Innovation: A Research Agenda for Information Systems Research in Developing Countries....Pages 269-279 Social Mapping for Communal Sensemaking: The Case of Development Informatics Researchers in South Africa....Pages 280-291 Front Matter....Pages 293-293 Affordance and Habitus: Understanding Land Records E-services in Bangladesh....Pages 295-306 Socializing Accountability for Improving Primary Healthcare: An Action Research Program in Rural Karnataka....Pages 307-320 System Failure for Good Reasons? Understanding Aid Information Management Systems (AIMS) with Indonesia as State Actor in the Changing Field of Aid....Pages 321-332 Practices of Disease Surveillance and Response in Burkina Faso....Pages 333-344 Design Science Research and Activity Theory in ICT4D: Developing a Socially Relevant ICT Platform for Elderly Women in Remote Rural South Africa....Pages 345-356 Front Matter....Pages 357-357 Building Capacity in Kenya’s ICT Market Using Cross-Border Scrum Teams....Pages 359-366 Agile Methods in Ethiopia: An Empirical Study....Pages 367-378 Front Matter....Pages 379-379 Deriving Engagement Protocols Within Community-Based Co-design Projects in Namibia....Pages 381-393 Continuing Medical Education on a Stick: Nepal as a Test Bed....Pages 394-409 Supporting Sustainability Through Collaborative Awareness Raising – A Case of Sri Lankan Telecentres....Pages 410-421 Front Matter....Pages 423-423 Understanding the Development Implications of Online Outsourcing....Pages 425-436 Front Matter....Pages 437-437 The Impact of Stakeholder Management on the Sense of Ownership in Telecenter Projects: The Case of Malawi....Pages 439-450 ICTs for Agroecology....Pages 451-462 An Exploration of the Integration Challenges Inherent in the Adoption of ICT in an Education System....Pages 463-474 Learning to Be Sustainable in ICT for Development: A Citizen Engagement Initiative in South Africa....Pages 475-486 Self-Reinforcing Linkages Between Value and Local Ownership: Rethinking Sustainability of ICT4D Project....Pages 487-497 Front Matter....Pages 437-437 ICT4D Sustainability as Generativity....Pages 498-509 Sustainability of the aAQUA e-Agriservice: A Case Study of Maharashtra, India....Pages 510-521 Front Matter....Pages 523-523 Experience with the Mobile4D Disaster Reporting and Alerting System in Lao PDR....Pages 525-535 Applying ICT to Health Information Systems (HIS) in Low Resource Settings: Implementing DHIS2 as an Integrated Health Information Platform in Lao PDR....Pages 536-547 From Routine to Revolt: Improving Routine Health Data Quality and Relevance by Making Them Public....Pages 548-558 Design and Build OLAP Business Intelligence for Village Sustainable Development Planning....Pages 559-569 Front Matter....Pages 571-571 Subalternity in Information Systems in Developing Countries....Pages 573-592 Challenges for Health Indicators in Developing Countries: Misconceptions and Lack of Population Data....Pages 593-604 Riding Waves of Change: A Review of Personas Research Landscape Based on the Three Waves of HCI....Pages 605-616 A Model for Developing Usable Integrated Case Management Information Systems....Pages 617-628 Bringing Visibility to Community Health Work with mHealth Systems: A Case of Malawi....Pages 629-639 True Value of Telecentre Contribution to Bario Community Development....Pages 640-653 Linkage Between ICT and Agriculture Knowledge Management Process: A Case Study from Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), India....Pages 654-666 Front Matter....Pages 667-667 Are Online Social Networks, Leading to a ‘Better World in the Omani Public Sector? A Qualitative Study....Pages 669-680 Four Strategies of Social Media Use Among Indonesian Politicians....Pages 681-692 From Longhand Writing to Word Processing: A Phenomenological Study of the Technophobe Turned Novelist....Pages 693-706 A Preliminary Testing of the Strategic IT Decision Making Model....Pages 707-717 Cancer Patients on Facebook: A Theoretical Framework....Pages 718-727 Factors Affecting the Growth of the ICT Industry: The Case of Bhutan....Pages 728-739 The Impact of Facebook on the Quality of Life of Senior Citizens in Cape Town....Pages 740-752 Front Matter....Pages 667-667 Mobile Phones as a Citizen-Controlled Anti-corruption Tool in East Africa - A Literature Review....Pages 753-764 Tensions in Information System Artefacts: Explaining Land Information Systems’ Sub-optimal Impact in Indonesia....Pages 765-777 Assessing the E-Government Maturity for Public Sector Innovation in Developing Countries: Case of National Informatization Assessment Tool (NIAT)....Pages 778-789 Front Matter....Pages 791-791 An Analysis of Accountability Concepts for Open Development....Pages 793-802 Information Ecology as a Framework for South-South Cooperation: Case Studies of Rwanda and Bangladesh ICT-Based Health Applications....Pages 803-808 Actor-Networks and “Practices” of Development: Impact of a Weather Information System in West Bengal....Pages 809-815 Understanding the Dilemma of the Municipal Solid Waste Management System in Alexandria, Egypt: Could ICT Improve the System?....Pages 816-822 A Reflection on IT Implementation Challenges in State Institution: A Case Study on Development Projects at Indonesian Judiciary....Pages 823-828 Analysis of Impact Sourcing by Infusing Social Innovation in Outsourcing for Nepal....Pages 829-834 Exploring Personal Computing Devices Ownership Among University Students in Indonesia....Pages 835-841 A Conceptual Framework of ICT4D Champion Origins....Pages 842-847 Back Matter....Pages 849-850