Critical Perspectives on Open Development
Critical Perspectives on Open Development Theoretical and empirical analyses of whether open innovations in international development instrumentally advantages poor and marginalized populations.Over…
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Critical Perspectives on Open Development
Theoretical and empirical analyses of whether open innovations in international development instrumentally advantages poor and marginalized populations.Over the last ten years, "open" innovations--the sharing of information without access restrictions or cost--have emerged within international development. This book examines whether, for whom, and under what circumstances the free, networked, public sharing of information and communication resources contributes (or not) towards a process of positive social transformation. But do these practices instrumentally advantage poor and marginalized populations?
The contributors offer both theoretical and empirical analyses that cover a broad range of applications, emphasizing the underlying aspects of open innovations that are shared across contexts and