Projects and Principal Investigators (PIs)

SIRCA II supports 15 projects across three continents, Africa, Asia and Latin America.

 

Africa

• Course Redevelopment for Delivery Using Learning Technologies (by Dr. Kassimu A. Nihuka, Tanzania)

• ICT and Food Security in Côte d’Ivoire: Case of Mobile Phone on Food Products Distribution from Village to City (by Kabran Aristide Djane, Côte d’Ivoire)

• ICT for the Development of Labour Productivity in Cameroon (by Tefong Vaumi Achille, Cameroon)

• Impact of Mobile Banking on Micro Savings, Payments and Household Welfare: Randomized Controlled Trials (by Mamadou Alhadji Ly, Senegal)

• StoreRooms: Science and Technology Opportunities and Resources Portal for Kenyan Female University Students (by Dr. Stephen Kimani, Kenya)

Asia

• Cybersex in the Anti-Development State: Labor Politics and Life Histories (By Elinor May Cruz, the Philippines)

• ICT Usage Among Burmese Ethnic Women Organizations in Thailand: Enabling Change For Women and Communities (By Nikos Dacanay, Thailand/Thailand-Burma Border)

• ICTs and Empowerment among New Generation Migrant Workers in China (by Dr. Baohua Zhou, China)

• The Dynamics of Interplay of Technology with ‘Health Seeking Behavior’ and ‘Doctor-Patient Interaction’ in Telemedicine: Case Studies from Rural India (by Dr. Rajesh Kuma Chandwani, India)

• The Internet and Women Empowerment – A Study of How Women in Indonesian Urban Areas Use Social Media to Become Entrepreneurs (by Ezmieralda Melissa, Indonesia)

Latin America

• Are Digital Textbooks a Sustainable Alternative in Peruvian Schools? Adapting the Pedagogical Approach of the Program “Leer Es Estar Adelante” to a Digital Format (by Maria Paz Olivera Rodriguez, Peru)

• ICT and Welfare Policies: Digital Skills’ Impact on Formal Education and Labor Market Trajectories of Young Uruguayans, evaluated by PISA 2003 (Panel Study) (by Matías Dodel Schubert, Uruguay)

• ICT’s and the Natural Knowledge Economy: Diverging or Converging Paths? (by Andrea Lucía Ordóñez Llanos, Ecuador)

• Supporting collaborative deliberation: designing consultation portals for deliberative practices in Brazil (by Dr. Fabro Boaz Steibel, Brazil)

• Youth, Inequalities and ICT: A Qualitative Study of Youth Paths to the Incorporation of Computer and Internet in the Frame of the Plan Conectar Igualdad in La Plata and Gran La Plata (by Dr. Héctor Sebastián Benítez Larghi, Argentina)