South African, Rural ICT Implementation: a critical retrospective application of Latour's due process model

Australasian Journal of Information Systems

Jo Rhodes¹ 

[1] Jo Rhodes

关键词: South Africa;    rural;    public sector;    Due Process Model;    actor-network theory;    gender;   

DOI  :  10.3127/ajis.v11i2.115

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: University of Canberra * Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering

【 摘 要 】

The potential developmental role of ICTs can pressurise governments to engage in ‘catch up’ and ‘leapfrog’. Consequently, analysis of the accompanying socio-political dimensions and risks can be, disastrously, neglected. This paper examines a specific technology implementation – a South African government sponsored telecentre using Latour’s Due Process model, an analytical tool grounded in Actor-Network Theory, where technology implementation is viewed as a symmetrical treatment of technology and society within a single collective. It is used here, retrospectively, to make sense of why the telecentre both failed to institutionalise within a successful actor-network, and, contributed to the destabilization and partial destruction of a successfully established women’s development organisation.

【 授权许可】

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