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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Technologies for Development"”.
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Digital Platforms and Mobile Technologies for Development: Essays on Firm Formalization, Financial Inclusion, and Agricultural Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa
… /nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-20704 for version including Figure A2.4. Mobile technologies and digital platforms have expanded rapidly across sub-Saharan Africa, creating opportunities to strengthen state capacity, broaden financial inclusion, and build agricultural resilience. This …
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Digital Platforms and Mobile Technologies for Development: Essays on Firm Formalization, Financial Inclusion, and Agricultural Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa
Mobile technologies and digital platforms have expanded rapidly across sub-Saharan Africa, creating opportunities to strengthen state capacity, broaden financial inclusion, and build agricultural resilience. This dissertation examines their development impacts across three settings. Chapter 1 …
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The contribution of information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) projects to capabilities, empowerment and sustainability : a case study of iREACH in Cambodia
… this thesis is to develop and test a framework for understanding whether, how and under what circumstances information and communication technologies (ICT) can contribute to development.
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Understanding Context in Design Research: The case of medical devices in resource-limited settings
… settings (RLSs). Whether purposefully designed for RSLs or transferred from a high-income country, the resulting devices often misalign with the characteristics of the context and the real needs of users. The challenges of contextualising medical devices in RLSs are widely acknowledged, but …
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Designing Ummeli a case for mediated design, a participatory approach to designing interactive systems for semi-literate users
… the user to build their CVs; browse and apply for employment and training opportunities; recommend and post jobs; get employment tips and connect to other job seekers. To design Ummeli, Ethnographic Action Research (EAR) was embraced, not as a methodology, but as a research approach, a …
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A community-based approach to new medium integration in South African education : a combination of ICT4D process approach and ethnographic action research techniques
… new medium effectively. Training and support effort, however, are often seen as top-down or outside-in approach that many teachers and past integration efforts have identified as being one of the contributing factors to integration failure. By looking at past integration efforts, as well as …
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Community-centred network management for community wireless networks (CWNs)
… (CWNs) have emerged as a viable solution for addressing connectivity challenges in remote areas by fostering resource shar ing and local infrastructure management. The complexity of technical network management hinders the sustainability of CWNs, despite their significance in connecting …
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Analysis of designed and emergent consequences of mobile banking usage by SME’s in Kenya using ethnographic decision tree modeling
Evaluating the impact of Information and Communications Technologies for Development (ICT4D) has been a challenge both in terms of theoretical and methodological approaches. It has been pointed out in extant literature that ICT4D impact studies are few compared to those that investigate …
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Designing Umeli: A Case for Medsersiated Design, a participatory approach to designing interactive systems for semi-literate users
… the user to build their CVs; browse and apply for employment and training opportunities; recommend and post jobs; get employment tips and connect to other job seekers. To design Ummeli, Ethnographic Action Research (EAR) was embraced, not as a methodology, but as a research approach, a …