ICT Ecosystems Survey

JavaScript isn't enabled in your browser, so this file can't be opened. Enable and reload.

JULY 1, 2013 UPDATE: Thank you all for filling out our initial survey!! It has been a real helpful exercise in shaping our pre-conference ideas on "ICT ecosystems." Kindly find our call for abstracts to the pre-conference symposium for emerging scholars here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/14PGQuojtgmARjqyPe6BA_8ewbMqLeoev8yPQNRkXxwk/viewform

DEADLINE: Friday July 26, 2013

Best wishes!

---------------------
This is a quick 1-minute survey to help us construct a call for papers for an ICTD emerging scholar symposium and to specifically collect peoples' thoughts/ opinions/knowledge about a topic we are considering: "ICT ecosystems."

The purpose of the survey is for ICTD2013 to help gauge interest in this topic and shape this emerging scholar symposium. This symposium hopes to fit into the research work being done by the ICTD community and by the emerging scholars themselves. This symposium will happen the week before the ICTD Cape Town conference in December 2013.

Given the emergence of this new theme, we provide a short description about what we so far know about ICT ecosystems.

The ICT ecosystem “…encompasses the policies, strategies, processes, information, technologies, applications and stakeholders that together make up a technology environment for a country, government or an enterprise. Most importantly, an ICT ecosystem includes people - diverse individuals who create, buy, sell, regulate, manage and use technology.” (Open e-Policy Group, 2005:3, see also Fransman, 2010; Smith and Elder, 2010; Toivanen, 2011). It is thus the complex and interdependent series of technical, social, political and economic relationships within which the information and communication infrastructure is embedded.

The research focus suggested is thinking around the emerging activities that are enabled or constrained by different configurations of ICT ecosystems in developing countries, and how these shape, and are shaped by the social outcomes that follow.

Please assist us in understanding this interesting topic according to your experience, research and ideas!! Below are some short questions which will help us shape the discussion:

I am attending ICTD 2013 in Cape Town this December

I would like to attend ICTD 2013 but will require financial support/travel grant

I think that the most important issues concerning ICT in the context of development are:

Please enter up to three themes that you think are important.

The topic that I would like to present at ICTD 2013, or one of the side events is:

I have previously encountered the term " ICT ecosystems"

Yes

Not sure

Clear selection

I know what the term "ICT ecosystems" means

Yes

Not sure

Clear selection

The ICT ecosystem is concerned with (choose all boxes which apply):

Governance and regulation of ICT

Climate change

Social and economic excluson

Gender

The technology and innovation environment

ICT for animal and plant protection

ICT, agriculture and the food chain

Digital poverty and digital disempowerment

It is important to understand the ICT ecosystems in order to facilitate sustainable development

Strongly agree

Agree

Disagree

Strongly disagree

Clear selection

I have used concepts from the ICT ecosystem in my own research

I am currently working on research concerning the ICT ecosystem

The keywords of my research on the ICT ecosystem are:

Please provide up to five keywords which describe the focus of your research

Would you submit a paper to an ICTD2013 emerging scholar symposium on the topic "ICT ecosystems"?

References

Fransman, M. (2010). The new ICT ecosystem: Implications for policy and regulation. Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Open e-Policy Group (2005). Roadmap for open ICT ecosystems. Cambridge, MA: Berkman Center for Internet and Society, available at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/publications/2005/The_Roadmap_for_Open_ICT_Ecosystems

Smith, M., & Elder, L. (2010). Open ICT ecosystems transforming the developing world. Information Technologies and International Development, 6(1), 65-71.

Toivanen, H. (2011). From ICT towards information society. Policy strategies and concepts for employing ICT for reducing poverty, available at http://www.vtt.fi/inf/pdf/workingpapers/2011/W158.pdf

Submit

Clear form

Never submit passwords through Google Forms.

This content is neither created nor endorsed by Google. - Terms of Service - Privacy Policy

Does this form look suspicious? Report

Forms