Embedded Autonomy: States & Industrial Transformation
Embedded Autonomy: States & Industrial Transformation
Fortune at the bottom of the pyramid, the: eradicating poverty through profits
Fortune at the bottom of the pyramid, the: eradicating poverty through profits
Capitalism at the crossroads: the unlimited business opportunities in solving the world's most difficult problems
The fortune at the bottom of the pyramid
The fortune at the bottom of the pyramid
E for express: "seeing" the Indian state through ICTD
ICTD'09 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Information and communication technologies and development
Technology as amplifier in international development
Proceedings of the 2011 iConference
Loose strands: searching for evidence of public access ICT impact on development
Proceedings of the 2011 iConference
Facilitated video instruction in low resource schools
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development
InfoMe @ teen design days: a multi-disciplinary, design thinking approach to community development
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies and Development: Notes - Volume 2
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The currently influential model for information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) is based on increasing the well-being of the poor through market-based solutions, and by using low-cost but advanced technologies. Using ethnographic methods, we chart out the contradictions that could arise when such a development-through-entrepreneurship model is implemented. We examine the Akshaya project, a franchise of computer-service kiosks in Kerala, India, which strives simultaneously for social development through access to computers and financial viability through cost recovery and entrepreneurship. We show that tensions within the state and among entrepreneurs and perceptions of public versus private among consumers make it challenging to meet the twin goals of commercial profitability and social development.