Symbolic practices and power asymmetries in ICT4D projects: The case of an Indian Agricultural Marketing Board

2020 ◽  
pp. 026839622096481
Author(s):  
Ranjan Vaidya ◽  
Michael D Myers
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Power Asymmetries ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Symbolic Practices

Information and communications technology can be used to improve the social and economic situation in developing countries. However, a broad range of challenges has been identified, and one of these relates to the power asymmetries in developing countries. These power asymmetries are often deeply entrenched. We conducted an in-depth critical case study of an information and communication technology for development project in India. We looked at the historical and cultural context, the roles of the actors, and the use of symbolic practices. Using Bourdieu’s theory of practice and, in particular, his concept of habitus, our findings reveal how symbolic practices can work against ICT projects in developing countries. These symbolic practices, rooted in a particular culture, are tied to and constitutive of power asymmetries. We offer a framework for studying habitus in information systems research on information and communication technology for development that may be useful for others who wish to explore similar questions in their case study research.

scholarly journals Surveillance in the liquid modern times

2019 ◽  
pp. 11-23
Author(s):  
Sabina Baraniewicz-Kotasińska ◽  
Sławomir Czapnik
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Solid Phase ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Social ◽  
Information And Communication

Surveillance, nowadays especially provided by information and communication technology, is at the core of social control that has been largely commoditised and privatized.Consumer culture gives hope for freedom lives, challenging the social hierarchies that dominated the earlier – in Bauman’s vocabulary, “solid” – phase of modernity. The aim of this paper is to present two of many tools, which are used by biggest IT companies to keep under surveillance the individuals, societies and nations in the Liquid Modern Times. There has been the socio-cultural context of Internet’s development analyzed to fnd the premises that led to a transformation of cyberspace from a freedom to a surveillance place, and conducted a case study of Facebook’s facial recognition technology and Google Street View practices. Non-reactive research methods have been used in the paper.

Social Media as a New Public Sphere

Leonardo ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 290-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Mazali
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Technology System ◽  
Single Person ◽  
New Public ◽  
Information And Communication

The information and communication technology system is constantly creating new scenarios, but a tendency in them can still be recognized: the blurring of the limits between consumers and producers and the passage from interactivity to participation (user generated contents, web 2.0, social networks). In this emerging cultural context, constantly redefined and remediated by individual and personalized forms of elaboration, it is important to understand the way in which every single person or group leads his/her own way towards reappropriation of the technological realm. The author aims to explore potential and real capacities of these new technologies to generate a new public sphere by analyzing an exemplary case study: the moblog communities in the megaphone.net project.

Manajemen Stratejik Pemanfaatan Teknologi Informasi dan Komunikasi untuk Peningkatan Mutu Pembelajaran SMK Ciledug Al Musaddadiyah dan SMKN 1 Garut

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-119
Author(s):  
Partono Partono
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
General Description ◽  
Vocational High School ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
School Learning

So far, in implementing school strategies, they tend not to utilize Information and Communication Technology (ICT), despite the availability of ICT resources available. Stages of strategic management are needed to generate the vision, mission, objectives, policy, program, budget, and procedures as well as control and evaluation process as an effort to utilize ICT to improve school quality. Based on the interpretation and the results of the study, it is concluded that schools have organized stages in strategic management that enable schools to have a quality profile. The impact of effective utilization of ICTs for schools is the achievement of effective school management, as per the National Education Standards, which is characterized by effective planning, implementation, control, and evaluation of school ICTs.The purpose of this study is to get a general description, describe, and reveal the Strategic Management of Information and Communication Technology Utilization to Improve the Quality of School Learning in Ciledug Al Musaddadiyah Vocational High School and Garut 1 Vocational High School, both on environmental analysis, strategic formulation, implementation and strategic evaluation. The research method used in this research is the case study method, because the problems studied occur in the place and situation of Ciledug Al Musaddadiyah Vocational School and Vocational High School 1 Garut. The use of case study models in this study is based on the consideration that to provide an overview of the strategic management activities of the use of ICTs carried out at vocational high schools with the ultimate goal of being able to improve the quality of school learning. Based on observations in the field of SMK 1 Garut and SMK Al Musaddadiyah Ciledug Garut is one of the public schools and private schools that have these advantages.

scholarly journals Students' understanding through the use of ICT-based accounting multimedia (MAKSI) in vocational high schools

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 151
Author(s):  
Vivi Pratiwi ◽  
Siswandari Siswandari ◽  
Djoko Santosa Th
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Vocational High Schools ◽  
Quantitative Descriptive ◽  
Essay Tests

This study aims to describe the use of MAKSI: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based accounting multimedia in improving students' understanding on bank reconciliation material in Vocational High Schools (SMK). This research is a quantitative-descriptive research with case study method involving 40 students. Data collection techniques used are tests using essay tests, observations, and interviews. The result showed that the average understanding before using MAKSI is 52.18 with the less category, while after using MAKSI the average increases to 76.23 with good category. Before using MAKSI, 65% of students have less understanding, 27.5% have sufficient understanding, while 10% have good understanding. After using MAKSI, the percentage of the the students who have good understanding increases to 40%. In addition, there are 40% of students who have very good understanding. Those who have less understanding are only 7.5% while 12.5% of them have sufficient understanding. Thus, the use of MAKSI in learning in SMK can improve students' understanding.

scholarly journals Information and Communications Technology and its Impact in Organizational Culture

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 438-459
Author(s):  
Khalid Zaidan Abdul Hadi ◽  
Rawia Mohammed Wajih Zarzis
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Main Element ◽  
Great Ability ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
A Prospective Study

The study seeks to effect demonstrate the information and communication technology in the organizational culture is a prospective study of the views of a sample of individuals in the Central Bank of Iraq, and the application of information and communication technology in our organizations is necessary and urgent, and the demands of progress and catch up with the passengers of developed countries, Others studies and papers and researches in this range, in focus on study of impotence of information and communication technology, business and administrative tasks in the organization including and the requirements of development and progress, and what the culture of the organization of a strong and direct impact on the success of any new strategy adopted for the performance of discrimination, the existence of an appropriate organizational culture that gives a great ability to deal with variables appropriately and able to adopt modern administrative applications in the field of informatics, the following questions: Is there a clear perception of the researched organization about ICT? Is there a clear perception of the researched organization about organizational culture? What is the reality researched organization for use the components of information and communication technology? What is the nature relationships effect and correlations between information and communication technology and Organizational Culture? In order to answer the above questions, the analytical descriptive method was adopted by designing and constructing a scale that has the ability to measure the main dimensions of the research. The questionnaire was distributed as (30) samples were distributed to a sample of individuals as the research sample. In order to analyze the data, the study reached a number of conclusions, the most important of which is the existence of a significant relationship between information and communication technology and organizational culture at the level of the researched organization. A number of issues were also presented, the most important of which is the great interest in the human resource, which is the main element in the adoption of modern technologies. And contribute to strengthening the organizational culture.

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