scholarly journals Azai Dosi Kfaang (Modern or Families of Newness): Kom Families from Village to Coast and Further Diasporic Spaces

Genealogy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Walter Gam Nkwi
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Postal Service ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Migrant Families ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Village

This paper focuses on “families of newness”, which amongst the Kom of Northwest Cameroon are known as azai dosi kfaang. It argues that because of geographical and social mobility experiences, families have not remained static, and consequently, the further they go from the village the more modernized they become. In recent times, African societies as well as family histories have been concerned with connecting with those who have been left behind. As a result, the blueprint that marks out the African family today is found in its mobility both within and out of the continent. At the same time, what glues the family together is the newer forms of technologies encapsulated in Information Communication Technologies (ICTs), which include amongst many others the cell phone, internet, WhatsApp, and Twitter. Letters pre-dated these new technologies and were significantly used by migrant families to stay “in touch”. Families began in the village, and as newer technologies were introduced—motor cars, a postal service and motorable roads—they moved or thought about places further away. With later technological developments, such as air travel and the mobile phone, families found themselves in distant diasporic spaces. This paper therefore hopes to make a contribution that relates family history and the history of migration to technology and social change. It also has the great value of discussing an area that gets too little attention in historiography. Fundamentally, the paper attempts to compare and contrast the use of technology, the news that could be shared (welfare, births, or obituaries), the length between contacts, the ability to make visits in person, the tensions that cropped up between family members abroad and those back at home in two periods, the 1930s–1940s and the 1990s to the present. What did these periods have in common? What was different and why? For the purpose of clarity, I will start the paper with a short introduction about the area, the issues of family formation, and kfaang. The second part of the paper will focus on the discussion of the “newness” of those who migrated to more modern places and the role of technology. The third part compares/contrasts the connections of families in the two periods (1930s–1940s and 1990s-present) in order to flesh out the argument.

E-Engaging India

2012 ◽  
pp. 875-899
Author(s):  
Kavita Karan
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Electronic Interaction ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Media Technologies

E-Governance, inclusive of e-democracy, e-government, and e-business, has the power to improve processes, connect citizens, and build interactions with civil societies. The infusion of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) by the governments, civil society organizations, and political institutions to engage citizens, have promoted greater participation in the process of governance. E-Democracy encompasses all forms of electronic interaction between the elected government and the electorate. Examples include e-voting, e-consultation, e-representatives, e-campaigning, online deliberative polling, e-petitions, and e-referendums. India is the largest democracy in the world and a frontrunner in the use of ICTs for e-governance and e-democracy. The last few elections witnessed a surge in the use of new technologies inclusive of Internet, social networking, and mobile technologies, alongside the traditional forms of electioneering. This chapter examines the e-governance and e-democracy strategies, and the innovative new media technologies used by political parties, industrial corporations, and other organizations that have e-engaged the citizens.

Academics’ ICT Capabilities in a New Educational Paradigm in Developing Countries

2013 ◽  
pp. 18-32
Author(s):  
Agnes Chigona ◽  
Rabelani Dagada
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
Educational Paradigm ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
New Education

Tertiary institutions in the developing countries are investing a lot in equipping their institutions with Information Communication Technologies (ICT) for teaching and learning. However, there is still a low adoption rate in the use of the new technologies among many academics in these countries. This chapter aims at analysing the factors that impact on the academics’ effective use of ICTs for teaching and learning in the new education paradigm. Sen’s Capability Approach was used as a conceptual lens to examine the academics’ phenomena. Data was collected through in-depth interviews. The analysis of the findings has shown that individual, social, and environmental factors are preventing some academics from realising their potential capabilities from using the new technologies. It is recommended, therefore, that institutions in the developing countries should look into, and deal with accordingly, the conversion factors that are impacting on the academics’ capabilities when utilising the new technologies.

Digital Equity in a Traditional Culture

2011 ◽  
pp. 173-192
Author(s):  
Patricia Randolph Leigh ◽  
J. Herman Blake ◽  
Emily L. Moore
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Black Americans ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Sea Islands ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
History Of

In this chapter, the authors explore the history of the Gullah people of the Sea Islands of South Carolina. In examining the history of oppression and isolation of Black Americans of Gullah descent, the authors look at how a history of racism and inequity set the stage for the digital inequities experienced by Gullah communities since the onset of the information age. They find that despite the Gullahs’ tenacious struggles for education and literacy during enslavement, many are left behind in this age of digital technology. The authors examine the effects that the isolated and closed Gullah communities, which were forced conditions during slavery, had upon many Gullahs’ reluctance and resistance to engagement in information communication technologies (ICTs) centuries later. They contend that this continued isolation inadvertently contributed to the loss of Gullah land as well as a pattern of gentrification that severely compromises Gullah traditions and values.

Developing Information Communication Technologies for the Human Services

2011 ◽  
pp. 627-641
Author(s):  
Jennifer Martin ◽  
Elspeth McKay
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Human Services ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Scenario Development ◽  
Work Requirement ◽  
Standards Of Practice

This chapter introduces a design process for developing useful information communication technologies for the human services. Key to the success of the design process is an in-depth knowledge and understanding of user needs and requirements. The stages involved in the design process are presented in this chapter and include: user and task analysis, persona and scenario development and the establishment of measurable usability goals. A case study illustrates the application of this design process to develop a Web enabled electronic work requirement awareness program (e-WRAP) for people recovering from mental illness seeking employment. The challenge for social workers is to use these new technologies to improve service provision and enhance quality of life without compromising ethical standards of practice; particularly in relation to client confidentiality, privacy and self-determination.

Crime, Security, and Information Communication Technologies

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David S. Wall
Keyword(s):  
System Development ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Crime Investigation ◽  
Future Society ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Broad Variety

Networked digital technologies have transformed crime to a point that ‘cybercrime’ is here to stay. In the future, society will be forced to respond to a broad variety of networked crimes that will increase both the complexity of crime investigation and prevention, whilst also deepening the regulative challenges. As cybercrime has become an inescapable feature of the Internet landscape, constructive management and system development to mitigate cybercrime threats and harms are imperatives. This chapter explores the changing cybersecurity threat landscape and its implications for regulation and policing. It considers how networked and digital technologies have affected society and crime; it identifies how the cybersecurity threat and crime landscape have changed and considers how digital technologies affect our ability to regulate them. It also suggests how we might understand cybercrime before outlining both the technological developments that will drive future cybercrime and also the consequences of failing to respond to those changes.

scholarly journals “Yeni” Teknolojiler ve Kurumsal İletişimin Yeni Araçları

Etkileşim ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 150-168
Author(s):  
Şaha Burcu Baygül Özpınar
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Corporate Identity ◽  
Corporate Communication ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Communication Management ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Descriptive Method

In corporate communication, it is essential to use all communication tools that will contribute to the corporate identity and reputation in a continuous, systematic and balanced manner. In an age where technological developments are reshaping all forms of business and communication, the faster the new technologies are applied by corporate companies, the more competitive advantage they provide. Moving from this point, it is very important for institutions to follow and undertand these developments and realize how to take advantage of new trends. In this study, the development of corporate communication was briefly mentioned, and the reflections of the developments in the communication technologies sector since the 1980s in the field of corporate communication were examined by using a descriptive method. The study draws a conceptual framework on the technological applications adopted by institutions in communication management in an effort to contribute to future research.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study of ICT Innovation Policy for the Countries Development Perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ayesha Saleem ◽  
Kiyohide Higuchi
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Innovation Policy ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Economic Factor ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Diffusion Of Information ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Frame Work ◽  
High Level

In the globalized environment, the economic growth significantly depends on the countries capacity to develop, to apply new technologies and vice versa. Diffusion of information communication technologies is a global phenomenon. Despite of rapid globalization there are considerable differences between nations in terms of adoption and usage of new technologies. This paper aims to draw together the highly eclectic literature on the diffusion of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Innovation in order to know what have been done, highlight the generic issues, relevant to policy and will initiate further research and develop potential opportunities. This paper also highlight the low level and high level income countries data and ICT policies frame work to draw conclusions and some case studies as an example. The objective is to review the finding the social economic factor for diffusion of ICT Innovation to make policy recommendation for the development of the country.

scholarly journals The Virus Covid-19 and Dilemmas of Online Technology

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-71
Author(s):  
R. Smith
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Evaluative Inquiry ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Medical Issues ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Physical Presence ◽  
History Of

Commentary on the COVID-19 pandemic must necessarily consider the medical issues in social and political context. This paper discusses one important dimension of the context, the long-term history of human activity as intrinsically technological in its nature. The pandemic has accelerated the use of technology to mediate relations between people “at a distance”. This involves not only a change in the skills people have (though acquiring these skills has become the central project of work for many people), but changes the sort of person they are. Our notions of “closeness” and “distance”, or of “touching” and “being touched”, and so on, refer simultaneously to states that are spatial and emotional, factual and evaluative. Inquiry into the differences in human relations where there is physical presence and where there is not raises very significant questions. What are the differences and why are they thought, and felt, to matter? What are the differences when the relationship is supposed to be a therapeutic one? What are the financial and political interests at work in enforcing relations at a distance by new media, i.e., “mediated” relations? How is a person’s agency affected by a lack of freedom to move or a lack of face-to-face contact? What happens to all those human relations for which physical presence was previously the norm, relations such as those performed in the rituals of birth, marriage and death, or in activities like sport and the arts? Can it be said that new technologies involve a “loss of soul”? The present paper seeks to provide a reflective and open-ended framework for asking such questions.

scholarly journals THE MODEL OF THE «HISTORY OF PEDAGOGICS» COURSE LEARNING PROCESS WITH USING THE MULTIMEDIA ENCYCLOPAEDIA

1970 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liubov Ye. Petukhova
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Education ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Professional Preparation ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
History Of ◽  
Effective Organization ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Pedagogical Environment

The article is devoted to researching the question of the effective use of information communication technologies in the process of professional preparation of future teachers of primary and preschool education. The outgoing positions of effective organization of educational process and elements of model of construction the «History of pedagogics» course on the basis of using the information communication pedagogical environment are presented.

Developing Information Communication Technologies for the Human Services

2010 ◽  
pp. 152-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Martin ◽  
Elspeth McKay
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Human Services ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Scenario Development ◽  
Work Requirement ◽  
Standards Of Practice

This chapter introduces a design process for developing useful information communication technologies for the human services. Key to the success of the design process is an in-depth knowledge and understanding of user needs and requirements. The stages involved in the design process are presented in this chapter and include: user and task analysis, persona and scenario development and the establishment of measurable usability goals. A case study illustrates the application of this design process to develop a Web enabled electronic work requirement awareness program (e-WRAP) for people recovering from mental illness seeking employment. The challenge for social workers is to use these new technologies to improve service provision and enhance quality of life without compromising ethical standards of practice; particularly in relation to client confidentiality, privacy and self-determination.

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