SIRCA III Publication Workshop

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The Singapore Internet Research Centre (SiRC) organized the final Open Development Publication Workshop, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia on May 20th and 21st, 2017. The Workshop was a critical milestone within SIRCA’s open development theory building programme. The Strengthening Information Society Research Capacity Alliance (SIRCA) III has two phases – a theory building phase and an empirical testing phase. This workshop was an opportunity for the theory and empirical teams to develop an over-arching meta-framework, core themes and arguments of the forthcoming SIRCA book, Critical Perspectives on Open Development: Empirical Investigation of Theory. The workshop was focused on providing feedback (both peer and editorial) for improvement and increased integration of individual book chapters, enabling greater cohesion between theoretical and empirical team chapters. A second goal of the workshop was to develop cross-cutting themes, and to acknowledge and address conceptual conflicts. The workshop was attended by at least one member from each theoretical and empirical project team.

Conference Track 5: Critical Perspectives on ICT and Open Innovation for Development at IFIP 2017

Research Associate Caitlin Bentley chaired a conference track, “Critical Perspectives on ICT and Open Innovation for Development” at The 14th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries – Working Group 9.4 Conference 2017. It consisted of three papers: 1) Collaborative Social Innovation in the Hybrid Domain: Organization and Rationality by Yuko Aoyama and Balaji Parthasarathy, 2) Digital Innovation: A Research Agenda for Information Systems Research in Developing Countries by Petter Nielsen, and 3) Social Mapping for Communal Sensemaking: the Case of Development Informatics Researchers in South Africa by Judy van Biljon and Mario Marais.