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Author Gigler, Björn-Sören

Title Development as freedom in a digital age : experiences from the rural poor in Bolivia / Björn-Sören Gigler
Published Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, [2015]

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Contents ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author""; ""Abbreviations and Acronyms""; ""PART I: ICTs and the Well-Being of Poor Communities""; ""1. Introduction: People, Technology, and Well-Being""; ""Emerging Evidence on the Links between ICTs and Development""; ""The Role of Telecenters for Socioeconomic Development""; ""The Link between E-Governance, Participation, and Community Development""; ""Evaluating the Impact of ICTs on the Well-Being of Poor Communities: The Need to Go beyond Conventional Approaches""
""The Multidimensional Approach to Well-Being Based on the Capability Approach""""Focus on Indigenous Peoples and the Impact of New Technologies on Their Well-Being""; ""Key Factors for Establishing a Link between ICTs and Poor People�s Human Development""; ""The Theoretical Framework: Placing Human Well-Being at the Center of Impact Evaluations""; ""Toward an Alternative Evaluation Framework of ICT Programs""; ""Operationalizing the AEF for Research in Bolivia""; ""Structure of the Book""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""2. The Methodology""; ""Methodological Approach""
""Definition of ICTs""""Methods of Data Collection""; ""Typology of Intermediary Organizations""; ""Methodological Challenges""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""3. Poverty, Inequality, and Human Development of Indigenous Peoples in Bolivia""; ""Identifying Indigenous Peoples""; ""The Demographics of Indigenous Peoples""; ""National and Indigenous Poverty""; ""Regional Distribution of Poverty""; ""The Unsatisfied Basic Needs Approach""; ""Income Inequality""; ""The Human Development of Indigenous Peoples""; ""Underlying Causes of Indigenous Poverty""; ""Notes""; ""References""
""PART II: The Empirical Evidence""""4. Poor People�s Information Needs, Perceptions, and Expectations about the Internet""; ""Principal Findings""; ""Organization of the Chapter""; ""Data Analysis""; ""Survey Results of Non-ICT Users""; ""Information Gap by Program""; ""Communication Flows""; ""Value and Expectations: The Potential of the Internet to Promote Indigenous Development""; ""Conclusions""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""5. Beyond Access to Meaningful Use""; ""Principal Findings""; ""Data Analysis""; ""Role of Demographic and Socioeconomic Factors in Explaining ICT Use""
""Educational Attainment""""Unsatisfied Basic Needs and Human Development""; ""Ethnicity""; ""Municipal Illiteracy Rates""; ""Role of Individual Factors in Explaining ICT Use""; ""Role of Socioeconomic Factors in Explaining ICT Use""; ""Role of Intermediary Organizations in Explaining ICT Use""; ""Cross-Validation of the Results: Multivariant Regression Analysis of the ECADI National Household Survey""; ""Conclusions""; ""References""; ""6. Beyond Use: Expanding Poor People�s ICT Capabilities""; ""Principal Findings""; ""Data Analysis""; ""Empirical Results of ICT User Survey""
Summary Under what conditions can new technologies enhance the well-being of poor communities? The study designs an alternative evaluation framework (AEF) that applies Amartya Sen's capability approach to the study of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in order to place people's well-being, rather than technology, at the center of the study. The AEF develops an impact chain that examines the mechanisms by which access to, and meaningful use of, ICTs can enhance people's "informational capabilities" and improve people's human and social capabilities. This approach thus uses people's individual and collective capabilities, rather than measures of access or use, as its principal evaluative space. Based on empirical evidence from Indigenous communities' use of new technologies in rural Bolivia, the study concludes that enhancing poor people's informational capabilities is the most critical factor determining the impact of ICTs on their well-being. Improved informational capabilities, like literacy, do enhance the human capabilities of poor and marginalized peoples to make strategic life choices and achieve the lifestyle they value. Evaluating the impact of ICTs in terms of capabilities thus reveals no direct relationship between improved access to, and use of, ICTs and enhanced well-being; ICTs lead to improvements in people's lives only when informational capabilities are transformed into expanded human and social capabilities in the economic, political, social, organizational, and cultural dimensions of their lives. The study concludes that intermediaries are bound to play a central, even fundamental, role in this process. They help poor communities to enact and appropriate ICTs to their local socio-cultural context so that their use becomes meaningful for people's daily lives, enhances their informational capabilities, and ultimately improves their human and social capabilities
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Subject Information technology -- Bolivia
Internet -- Social aspects -- Bolivia
Rural poor -- Bolivia
Information technology
Internet -- Social aspects
Rural poor
Bolivia
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781464804205
1464804206
9781464804212
1464804214