How new Global Alliances and Identities shape ICT
How new Global Alliances and Identities shape ICT Policy in Developing Countries: Insights from Globalization of e. Health in Africa Dr Adesina Iluyemi Ph. D Candidate adesina. iluyemi@port. ac. uk ICT Policy in Developing Countries CDI, University of Manchester March 2010
ICT Policymaking as Narratives • Process captured in texts, speeches, languages and discourses of: – Actors – Organizations – Institutions • Captured in meetings, conferences, workshops, observations, participations, roundtables, conversations & rapports • Social Study of Technology (SST) • Global-Local Divide
ICT Policymaking as an Ethnography • e. Health 4 D Policy Ethnography – Evolution – Narratives • e. Health for International Development – e. Health Diplomacy – Technology determinism • Participation, Involvement in and Observations of e. Health Policy conferences, projects, meetings • Ethnographic Identity – – Policy Advocate Speaker/Researcher Convenor Chair
ICT POLICY-MAKING PROCESS
PROCESS DRIVERS • • Globalization Power Asymmetry Personal and Enlightened Interests Technology Transfers Socio-economic Development National Mainstreaming (Sustainability & Scalability)
ICT POLICY PRODUCTS • GLOBAL IDENTITIES – Corporate – Individuals • ALLIANCES • COMPLEXES • Shapes & Influences Process – Iterative and dynamic – Action (Process) conditions Structures (Products)
IDENTITIES: CORPORATE • • Mercantilism Capitalism Donorism Globalism Patronage Diplomacy Imperialism • • • Territorialism Nationalism Techno-centricism Techno-scholarship Techno-governance Agency
IDENTITIES: INDIVIDUAL • • Entrepreneurialism Altruism Techno-scholarship Technocracy Punditry Activism Agency
ALLIANCES • • • e. Health Technocratic alliance Global e. Health 4 D activist alliance Global e. Health capitalist alliance IGO-NGO e. Health Governance alliance Global e. Health 4 D donor –academia pact Global e. Health Governance Agency
COMPLEXES • • • Altruist –Corporate behavioural complex North-South- patronage complex Global mercantile-altruistic complex e. Health 4 D expert-altruist behavioural complex Global e. Health 4 D sciolism
Nature of ICT Policy Process – – – – Socio-technical Hazy Disempowering Multi-stakeholder Complex Paternalistic Globalized – – – – Vertical Entangled Interest-Driven Techno-centric Industrial Commercial Counter-productive
THE POLICY NATURE DYNAMICS
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