Impact of Information Society Research in the Global South [electronic resource] / edited by Arul Chib, Julian May, Roxana Barrantes.

Foreword -- Chapter 1: Research on Impact of the Information Society in the Global South: An Introduction to SIRCA -- Part I: Impact of Research -- Chapter 2. The Impact of Research on Development Policy and Practice: This Much We Know -- Chapter 3: Constructing Theories of Change for Information Society Impact Research -- Chapter 4: A New Set of Questions: ICT4D Research and Policy -- Chapter 5: Progress Towards Resolving the Measurement Link Between ICT and Poverty Reduction -- Chapter 6: The Impact of mFinance Initiatives in the Global South: A Review of the Literature -- Chapter 7: An Analytical Framework to Incorporate ICT as an Independent Variable -- Part II: Research on Impact -- Chapter 8: (Un)Balanced Conversations: Participatory Action Research in Technology Development in Peruvian Primary Schools -- Chapter 9: The Institutional Dynamics Perspective of ICT for Health Initiatives in India -- Chapter 10: Cybersex as Affective Labour: Critical Interrogations of the Philippine ICT Framework and the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 -- Chapter 11: The Internet and Indonesian Women Entrepreneurs: Examining the Impact of Social Media on Women Empowerment -- Chapter 12. The Use of Mobile Communication in the Marketing of Foodstuffs in Côte d'Ivoire -- Chapter 13: Designing Web 2.0 Tools for Online Public Consultation -- Chapter 14: ICTs and Opinion Expression: An Empirical Study of New Generation Migrant Workers in Shanghai -- Chapter 15: Impact of Research or Research on Impact: More Than a Matter of Semantics and Sequence.

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