Understanding Context: Transculturation and Imposed Change

Community development is a long process of inquiry, program development, and deployment. There are many impediments to successful development, and many methods for implementing change. One issue that often thwarts development is the rejection of change through transculturation by the community. Understanding and modeling transculturation can improve development by increasing the predictability of stakeholders response to change, and providing a template for designing change that is congruent with existing cultural norms.

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The Effectiveness Of The Implementation Of Independent Community Empowerment Programs In Bone District

10.31219/osf.io/v7n4d ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Yusriadi Yusriadi

Keyword(s):

Community Development ◽

Capacity Building ◽

Program Development ◽

Social Life ◽

Community Empowerment ◽

Development Programs ◽

Road Infrastructure ◽

Local Actors ◽

The Government ◽

The City

The implementation in Bone Regency from the aspect of community development, direct community assistance, capacity building for the government, local actors, management assistance, and program development showed effective results. Implementation has been carried out by the organizers well in carrying out development programs starting with the construction of road infrastructure, irrigation, lending business funds to the community. The program provides changes to the economy and social life of the city. The implementation of this program has several obstacles, such as the community lacking understanding of the aims and objectives of the program, the lack of responsibility of some communities in returning the revolving funds that have given.

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Gender and Public Access ICT

Libraries, Telecentres, Cybercafes and Public Access to ICT ◽

10.4018/978-1-60960-771-5.ch006 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 51-64

Author(s):

Allison Terry ◽

Ricardo Gomez

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Community Development ◽

Geographic Location ◽

Public Access ◽

Cultural Norms ◽

Cultural Approach ◽

Marginalized Groups ◽

Gender Biases ◽

Race Ethnicity ◽

Male Activity

Studies show that due to systemic gender biases in the use of and access to ICTs and their applications, as well as socio-cultural norms that position computing as a predominantly male activity, women in developing countries are more likely than men to face barriers to reaping the benefits of ICTs for their personal and community development. Gender analysis “asserts that power relations in class, race, ethnicity, age, and geographic location interact with gender, producing complex and hidden inequalities that affect social change” (APC WNSP, 2005). A review of recent literature on gender and ICT, and the results of the Landscape Study, suggest that there are both personal and collective benefits to women through the use of ICT, as well as barriers that prevent marginalized groups in society, and women in particular, from realizing these benefits. What are these barriers? What benefits does ICT offer women? Throughout this chapter, we will explore these barriers and benefits through examples drawn from our findings in the Landscape Study, embracing a cultural approach in analyzing the ways in which women transform their lives through the use of ICT, with a particular emphasis on ICT use through public access venues.

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Healthy Heroes, Magic Meals, and a Visiting Alien

Social Marketing Quarterly ◽

10.1177/1524500412472493 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 26-39 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Martine Stead ◽

Lisa Arnott ◽

Emma Dempsey

Keyword(s):

Community Development ◽

Health Outcomes ◽

Program Development ◽

Social Marketing ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Positive Health ◽

Community Residents ◽

Consumer Orientation ◽

Positive Health Outcomes

Although social marketing emphasizes consumer orientation, it is only in recent years that consumers and communities have been at the center of program development and implementation. This article illustrates how, on a modest budget, social marketing and community development approaches were combined in two innovative and creative community-led projects in Edinburgh, Scotland. Community residents were integrally involved, not just as participants in research and as project beneficiaries, but as decision makers, creators, and implementers. The projects illustrate how communities have skills and assets within themselves which they can bring to bear in a social marketing framework, making it possible to apply social marketing on modest budgets, and how interventions which originate within communities and are owned by them may be more engaging and may lead to more positive health outcomes. Approaches which genuinely involve communities in development and implementation make financial, practical, and philosophical sense.

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