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Kate Colligan
Kaitlyn Lyons
What is ICT?
Some communication technologies do not translate well in other contexts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDycZH0CA4I
How do we figure out who is who and what is what?
Access is Key
Unhealthy Corporate Interests
Postcolonialism
The Promise of Poverty Reduction “By uncompromisingly reducing poverty to a technical
problem, and by promising technical solutions to the sufferings of powerless and oppressed people, the hegemonic problematic of ‘development’ is the principle means through which the question of poverty is de- politicized in the world today” [13:256]
Reject.Rephrase.Reinterpret. Rhetoric redux: discontinue use of “development”
“cultural differences” and “cultural conceptions of knowledge”
These statements blind us from describing what is actually occurring.
We are all “us” and we are all “them” in order to build discourse
The Article Prepares researchers for the complexity of global
communication technologies with special attention given to learning from information creators in both indigenous and corporate settings to construct appropriate design principles
Is quite dense but palatable in a good way..like a donut
Configurable Politics and Asymmetric Integration: Health e-Infrastructures in India Integrated e-infrastructure is beneficial for all, but it is
hard to integrate when the politics do not support all aspects.
Pre-integration Different systems that did not work together and were
not equally supported forced staff to do more work by making them re-enter data into different systems to get the different outcomes they needed. Some data also would get left out because it was in a different system.
Why e-Infrastructure? What is it? Research carried out regionally or globally
through Internet collaborations
E-Infrastructure can provide researchers with shared access to large data collections, advanced ICT tools for data analysis, large-scale computing resources [1]
More specifically patient and GIS data can be analyzed and reported easily on a regular basis
[1]”What is e-Infrastrucutre” JISC. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/einfrastructure_rtf.rtf.
Why is it asymmetrical? Politics have a large affect on how systems can be
integrated. This is because it all depends where the money comes from.
How did HISP succeed with asymmetrical integration? Being flexible
By creating a tool that can be up front or behind the scenes
compatible in many different situations and over time
Critiques This article is told from the point of view of the
underdog—a NGO that was not always politically supported.
Although the researchers conducted interviews with many parties, I think the article was biased. The authors were involved with the process and trying to implement DHIS.
Seemed like it was trying to sell itself
Barely mentioned things like training and lack of Internet connection
Integration in Interlibrary Loan ILLiad software has
Z39.50, Amazon, Google, Innovative, and many other options integrated in it’s software
Discussion Question If everything is integrated then won’t everything be a
monopoly?