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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| description | 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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| spelling | unimas-113232024-02-22T01:44:36Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/11323/ Social Shaping of Technologies for Community Development Redeployment of Information Communication Technologies among the Kelabit in Bario of the Kelabit Highlands Poline, Bala H Social Sciences (General) 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. AIGI Global 2009 Book Chapter PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/11323/1/978-1-60566-735-5.ch013.pdf Poline, Bala (2009) Social Shaping of Technologies for Community Development Redeployment of Information Communication Technologies among the Kelabit in Bario of the Kelabit Highlands. In: J. Martin & L. Hawkins Information Communication Technologies for Human Services Education and Delivery: Concepts and Cases. AIGI Global, Hershey P. ISBN 9781605667355 DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-735-5.ch013 |
| spellingShingle | H Social Sciences (General) Poline, Bala Social Shaping of Technologies for Community Development Redeployment of Information Communication Technologies among the Kelabit in Bario of the Kelabit Highlands |
| title | Social Shaping of Technologies for Community Development
Redeployment of Information Communication Technologies among the Kelabit in Bario of the Kelabit Highlands |
| title_full | Social Shaping of Technologies for Community Development
Redeployment of Information Communication Technologies among the Kelabit in Bario of the Kelabit Highlands |
| title_fullStr | Social Shaping of Technologies for Community Development
Redeployment of Information Communication Technologies among the Kelabit in Bario of the Kelabit Highlands |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social Shaping of Technologies for Community Development
Redeployment of Information Communication Technologies among the Kelabit in Bario of the Kelabit Highlands |
| title_short | Social Shaping of Technologies for Community Development
Redeployment of Information Communication Technologies among the Kelabit in Bario of the Kelabit Highlands |
| title_sort | social shaping of technologies for community development
redeployment of information communication technologies among the kelabit in bario of the kelabit highlands |
| topic | H Social Sciences (General) |
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