Hi Antonio,
You are asking a fundamentally vital question. I do not have a direct answer to your question although that is my area of interest. I can give you two pointers though.
1. A look at conceptualizing ICT in a development context is essential. I have written a paper recently on this with G. Harindrantah. It appears in "The Information Society" volume 20 no. 1, 2004. It touches upon many of the points you have made here.
2. Specific to the knowledge creation and use, a good thedoretical lpens to use is Nonaka. I will also look at the work of Argyris and Schoen on practice and knowledge. Finally a chapter by Justine Johnstone in S. Krishna, and S. Madon (Eds.) The Digital Challenge: Information Technology in the Development Context, Ashgate
Not empirical work but good theoretical lenses.
Good luck.
hilsen ..... Maung
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Dear All,
I am in the first year of my doctoral studies at The University of Auckland, New Zealand. I am from Peru and my research interest is to examine how ICT assists human capacity development for socio-economic development in developing countries. My interest is to find out how ICT gap between have and have not (DC and LDC) can be closed in order to benefit from the knowledge economy. Most authors, organisations and development agencies have been busy providing ICT (information and communication systems) to developing countries. However, can these systems actually develop the capability and capacity to synthesis 'useful' knowledge in developing countries? I doubt it.
There is considerable literature, theories and propositions on knowledge management with a slant towards information provisions to developing countries. Several development programs funded by the ADB, World Bank have focused on providing ICT systems as an enabler and access to information. From knowledge management view point, I would like to argue that providing information and enabling ICT systems, is only small effort in bridging the gap between knowledge have and knowledge have-not. This is because the ability to use information resides in capacity and capability to create knowledge from such information. For ICT to be beneficial, it is imperative that we develop knowledge synthesis capability at individual and enterprise levels. My initial research suggests that we have devoted most our efforts to develop ICT systems not the knowledge creation capability from it. Access to information is not the same as knowledge synthesis; the information access is not enough for the creation of "useful" knowledge and it seems that most efforts in developing countries are currently devoted to ICT systems building thinking that it will allow knowledge synthesis.
Has any one seen any interesting work in the area of methods of translating ICT to knowledge or any studies on developing countries capability to use them effectively?
I will appreciate your comments and assistance.
Regards,
Antonio Díaz Andrade
The University of Auckland Business School Information Systems and Operations Management Department
7 Symonds Street,
Auckland New Zealand
Phone: 64 9 373-7599 ext. 89838
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