Basics of qualitative research: Grounded theory procedures and techniques

世界経済・社会統計 = World development indicators

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.2307%2F3343168.pdf

Development as Freedom

Sustainable Development Goals

The Rise of the Creative Class

The use of electronic communications technology in the developing world context brings forth challenges that may potentially unleash the power of civil society by fostering networking among civil servants involved in public administration reform. This paper highlights the key considerations that drive the need for building civil associations through networks and explores the development of GOVERNET, an administrative reform network and concludes with some insight into the salient issues driving this form of networking.

Fostering civil associations in Africa through GOVERNET: an administrative reform network

Fostering associations in Africa through networking

The use of information technology in micro- enterprises has been shown to bring about improvements in accessing new markets, in achieving administrative efficiencies, increased productivity and competitiveness. To benefit from IT, micro-enterprises require specialized intervention and support. At the same time these micro-enterprises require skill sets that can translate their unique needs to IT solutions. This paper provides an IT Therapy approach to addressing micro-enterprise needs through IT. Following an action research approach to investigating micro-enterprises, this paper provides insights into how IT can bring about sustained improvements in micro-enterprises. The contribution of this paper is in guidelines of how IT can bring about development in micro-enterprises. This has implications for IT interventions to support micro- enterprises to achieve broader goals of sustainable development.

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Sustainability of Information Technology Therapy on Micro-enterprise Development

In the past year and especially more recently, multitudes of people around the world have been in protest. Protest against the will of the people in the United Kingdom for the vote to exit the European Union. Protests against the United States’ election of a President and politicians who propose xenophobic, and isolationist policies. The largest of these were the protests against the denial of women’s rights. Women’s marches on 21 January 2017, took place around the world starting in Washington, DC with over 500,000 peaceful protesters, 750,000 in Los Angeles, 250,000 in Chicago, 200,000 in New York City, and 100,000 in Boston with additional marches in many other cities all over the country. These became known as the largest recorded marches in United States (US) history. Around the world people marched in London, in the United Kingdom, Sydney in Australia, Auckland in New Zealand, Berlin in Germany, Paris in France, Nairobi in Kenya, Cape Town in South Africa, and as far away as Antarctica. USA today reported that more than 2.9 million people across world took part in 673 marches in all 50 states and 32 countries to protest the first full day of the newly elected president (Przybyla & Schouten, 2017). In Mexico City, Mexico, the marchers were joined by American citizens and other nationals hoping to show their support for a more inclusive civil society. Propelled by fear that the new administration will roll back reproductive, civil and human rights, the protesters peacefully called for a revolution. This revolution began as a Facebook post the day after the election and has swelled into a massive movement unifying demonstrators around issues like reproductive rights, immigration and civil rights (Hartocollis, Alcindor, & Chokshi, 2017). A revolution that marks an awakening to a reality that has been in the works for some time. My colleague who attended a Women’s march in Omaha, Nebraska, with his teenage daughter, commented on how the posters, hand-crafted by the protesters, were all different and illustrated a unity of motivation, but a lack of centralized orchestration, indicating a genuine spirit and initiative among the participants. With all the uniquely different posters around the world, it appears that the principal sentiment was that of unity. Struck by their originality, a professor at Northeastern University who stopped to admire the discarded signs at Boston common after the Women’s march there, decided that they had to be saved. So, he collected the signs, and they filled a 40-square foot storage unit (Zamudio-Suaréz, 2017). However, there are limits to what such protests can achieve. After attending the protests in Washington, DC, Ioffe (2017) reports:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02681102.2017.1293963

The forgotten awaken: ICT’s evolving role in the roots of mass discontent

Development is improvement in the lives of people. The effects of information technology on development have been studied by assessing improvements in the lives of people in their communities, regions, countries or even groups of countries. This can be studied by investigating the social impacts on development of the technologies. The social concept of development suggests that people participate in improving their circumstances through the development of healthcare, education, environment and community services (Apthorpe 1999, Arce 2003, and Midgley 2003). Social development considers improvements in the lives of people through programs in healthcare, education, and the environment that are often aBstract

Sajda Qureshi

Papers

Fostering civil associations in Africa through GOVERNET: an administrative reform network

Fostering associations in Africa through networking

Sustainability of Information Technology Therapy on Micro-enterprise Development

The forgotten awaken: ICT’s evolving role in the roots of mass discontent

Business Models for Development: The Global Capability Sourcing Model