Appreciating the Contribution of Broadband ICT With Rural and Remote Communities: Stepping Stones Toward an Alternative Paradigm
Appreciating the Contribution of Broadband ICT With Rural and Remote Communities: Stepping Stones Toward an Alternative Paradigm
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赞赏宽带 ICT 对农村和偏远社区的贡献：迈向替代范式的垫脚石
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10.1080/01972240701224044
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2007
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Ricardo Ramírez
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作者：
Ricardo Ramírez
本文挑战传统的政策制定和评估方法，强调技术的工具方面。农村宽带信息通信技术的传统规划和评估方法一方面试图证明投资与成果之间的直接联系，另一方面，有证据表明，信息通信技术对农村经济、社会和文化福祉的贡献越来越难以超越短期可衡量指标来证明，两者之间的差距越来越大。本文提出了一种基于社会技术系统、利益相关者参与、对发挥作用的多个维度的认识以及越来越多的信息通信技术不可预测性证据的替代范式。这篇文章强调了一个基于“贡献”而非归因的视角；既能适应又能包容多种观点的政策制定；对新出现的评价方法进行方法学检验；以及作为学习实验的项目。这种替代的理论和政策制定范式被封装在一个基于自然资源管理的隐喻中，在这个隐喻中，利益相关者通过阅读系统对项目干预的反应来跟踪他们自己的影响指标。
This article challenges conventional policy development and evaluation approaches that emphasize the instrumental side of technology. There is a growing gap between conventional planning and evaluation approaches for rural broadband ICTs that seek to demonstrate a direct link between investments and results on the one hand, and on the other, with evidence that the contribution of ICTs to rural economic, social and cultural wellbeing is increasingly difficult to demonstrate beyond short-term measurable indicators. The article proposes an alternative paradigm based on sociotechnical systems, stakeholder engagement, an acknowledgment of the multiple dimensions at play, and the growing evidence of unpredictability of ICTs. The article emphasizes a perspective based on “contribution,” not attribution; policymaking that is both adaptive and inclusive of multiple perspectives; methodological testing of emerging evaluation methodologies; and projects as learning experiments. This alternative theoretical and policymaking paradigm is encapsulated in a metaphor based on the management of natural resources where stakeholders track their own indicators of impact by reading how the system responds to a project intervention.