Lessons from IDRC Research: Making Open Development Inclusive

55.00 JOD

Please allow 2 – 5 weeks for delivery of this item

Description

Drawing on ten years of empirical work and research, analyses of how open development has played out in practice.A decade ago, a significant trend toward openness emerged in international development. “Open development” can describe initiatives as disparate as open government, open health data, open science, open education, and open innovation. The theory was that open systems related to data, science, and innovation would enable more inclusive processes of human development. This volume, drawing on ten years of empirical work and research, analyzes how open development has played out in practiceFocusing on development practices in the Global South, the contributors explore the crucial questions of who is allowed to participate when an initiative is “open” and who benefits—or not—from them, finding that processes characterized as open can sometimes be exclusionary in their implementation. Examining a wide range of cases, they consider the governance of open development ecosystems and the implementation of a variety of applications, including open educational resources, collaborative science, and the uses of crowdsourcing.ContributorsDenisse Albornoz, Chris Armstrong, Savita Bailur, Roxana Barrantes, Carla Bonina, Michael Cañares, Leslie Chan, Laura Czerniewicz, Jeremy de Beer, Stefano De Sabbata, Shirin Elahi, Alison Gillwald, Mark Graham, Rebecca Hillyer, Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, Dick Kawooya, Erika Kramer-Mbula, Paulo Matos, Caroline Ncube, Chidi Oguamanam, Angela Okune, Alejandro Posada, Nagla Rizk, Isaac Rutenberg, Tobias Schonwetter, Fabrizio Scrollini, Ruhiya Kristine Seward, Raed Sharif, Matthew Smith, William Randall Spence, Henry Trotter, François van Schalkwyk, Sonal Zavaeri

Additional information

Weight 0.7718 kg
Dimensions 2.2352 × 17.9324 × 23.0124 cm
by

, ,

Format

Paperback

Language

Publisher

Year Published

2020-8-25

Imprint

Publication City/Country

USA

ISBN 10

026253911X

About The Author

Matthew L. Smith is Senior Program Specialist at the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa. He is coeditor of Open Development: Networked Innovation in International Development (MIT Press and IDRC).Ruhiya Kristine Seward is Senior Program Officer at the International Development Research Centre.Matthew L. Smith is Senior Program Specialist at the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa. He is coeditor of Open Development: Networked Innovation in International Development (MIT Press and IDRC).Ruhiya Kristine Seward is Senior Program Officer at the International Development Research Centre.Matthew L. Smith is Senior Program Specialist at the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa. He is coeditor of Open Development: Networked Innovation in International Development (MIT Press and IDRC).Ruhiya Kristine Seward is Senior Program Officer at the International Development Research Centre.Mark Graham is Professor of Internet Geography at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford the editor (with William H. Dutton) of Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication Are Changing Our Lives.Matthew L. Smith is Senior Program Specialist at the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa. He is coeditor of Open Development: Networked Innovation in International Development (MIT Press and IDRC).Ruhiya Kristine Seward is Senior Program Officer at the International Development Research Centre.

Table Of Content

Preface vii Acknowledgments ix Foreword by Robin Mansell xi 1 Introduction: Governing Openness in an Unequal World 1 Matthew L. Smith and Ruhiya Kristine Seward I Defining Open Development 2 Updating Open Development: Open Practices in Inclusive Development 23 Matthew L. Smith and Ruhiya Kristine Seward 3 Open Innovation in Development: Integrating Theory and Practice across Open Science, Open Access, and Open Data 51 Jeremy de Beer II Governing the Open Development Ecosystem 4 Gender and Equity in Openness: Forgotten Spaces 87 Sonal Zaveri 5 The Geographic Contours of Openness 119 Mark Graham and Stefano De Sabbata 6 Ecologies of (Open) Access: Toward a Knowledge Society 143 Laura Czerniewicz 7 Open Provision: Changing Economic and Human Development Perspectives 157 William Randall Spence and Matthew L. Smith 8 Openness in Telecommunications Reform and Practice: The Case of Open Access Broadband Networks, Public Wi-Fi, and Zero-Rating 183 Alison Gillwald 9 Who Benefits from Open Models? The Role of ICT Access in the Consumption of Open Activities 219Roxana Barrantes and Paulo Matos III Governing Open Development Applications 10 Open Government Data for Inclusive Development 251 François van Schalkwyk and Michael Cañares 11 Governing Open Health Data in Latin America 291 Carla Bonina and Fabrizio Scrollini 12 Open Educational Resources and Practices in the Global South: Degrees of Social Inclusion 317Henry Trotter and Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams 13 Toward an Inclusive, Open, and Collaborative Science: Lessons from OCSDNet 357 Rebecca Hillyer, Denisse Albornoz, Alejandro Posada, Angela Okune, and Leslie Chan 14 The Inclusivity of Crowdsourcing and Implications for Development 381 Savita Bailur and Raed Sharif 15 Open Innovation in Africa: Current Realities, Future Scenarios, and Scalable Solutions 403 Jeremy de Beer, Chris Armstrong, Shirin Elahi, Dick Kawooya, Erika Kramer-Mbula, Caroline Ncube, Chidi Oguamanam, Nagla Rizk, Isaac Rutenberg, and Tobias Schonwetter 16 Conclusion: Understanding the Inclusive Potential of Open Development 431 Ruhiya Kristine Seward Contributors 447 Index 459

Series

Reviews

There are no reviews yet.

Only logged in customers who have purchased this product may leave a review.