Social Shaping of Technologies for Community Development Redeployment of Information Communication Technologies among the Kelabit in Bario of the Kelabit Highlands
Using electronic-Bario (e-Bario) project in the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak in East Malaysia, this chapter explores how the introduction of information communication technologies (ICT) as developmental tools have been mediated and reconfigured by webs of social relations and the intricate interpl...
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| Format: | Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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AIGI Global
2009
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/11323/ http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/11323/1/978-1-60566-735-5.ch013.pdf |
| Summary: | Using electronic-Bario (e-Bario) project in the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak in East Malaysia, this
chapter explores how the introduction of information communication technologies (ICT) as developmental
tools have been mediated and reconfigured by webs of social relations and the intricate interplay of
social, political and cultural conditions specific to different social and technical settings. One crucial
factor conditioning the effects of the project has been the Kelabit’s own desire for, and expectations
of, “development” and “progress.” This is a quest which ties in closely with two fundamental Kelabit
concepts: doo-ness and iyuk. As a result, the social and economic effects of ICT have unfolded through
countless open-ended strategic and everyday decisions made by the Kelabit themselves, who actively
consume, apply and make use of objects, ideas and services in the Highlands. |
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