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Monash University
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Monash University - Caulfield Campus
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Library and Information Studies | Records and Information Management (excl. Business Records and Information Management)
Gender and Sexualities | Climate Change Adaptation Measures | Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences |
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2022
Publisher: Australian Society of Archivists
Date: 21-03-2018
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-07-2022
DOI: 10.1002/ASI.24702
Abstract: Information and communication technology for development (ICT4D) is a field of research concerned with studying how information and communication technologies (ICTs) can be used to improve the socio‐economic situation of marginalized communities in developing countries. The authors identify the preservation of the information provided or accessed during ICT4D projects as a critical gap in ICT4D research. They argue that archival science, an information discipline concerned with the preservation of recorded information, provides theories and models that can help make ICT4D projects more sustainable. They discuss the creation of analog backups by participants in an ICT4D project in Bangladesh as an ex le of communities taking the initiative to remedy the limitations of an ICT4D project with simple pen and paper technology to preserve the information they wanted to keep. Conversely, they argue that insights on how marginalized communities interact with and preserve information gained through ICT4D projects can enrich archival science and foster the development of more inclusive theories and practices. Finally, they suggest areas for interdisciplinary research between ICT4D and archival science.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2001
DOI: 10.1080/714004419
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 12-01-2022
Abstract: Records management has been heavily influenced by practice in English-speaking countries but is often seen as a foreign import in non-Anglophone countries. This study aims to investigate how using English terminology or translating records management terminology into French in a Francophone environment impacts on the success of recordkeeping strategies. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with Francophone archivists and records managers in Switzerland to assess their communication strategies and the language used to communicate recordkeeping objectives. The research findings indicate that in a Francophone environment, archivists and records managers who use French terminology are more successful in promoting recordkeeping objectives than those who use English terminology. Given that research was limited to one Swiss canton, more research is needed to test these findings in other Francophone cantons, provinces and countries. This study is important for the success of recordkeeping initiatives in non-Anglophone countries. It highlights the need to take into account the local information culture and use terminology with which people are most familiar.
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
Date: 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
Date: 2023
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
Date: 2022
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1994
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 22-02-2022
DOI: 10.1002/JID.3644
Abstract: International non‐governmental organisations (INGOs) bring together actors from three very different backgrounds: international aid workers, national aid workers generally from the urban middle classes and disadvantaged communities. However, the ways national aid workers negotiate their cultural encounters and use accountability tools and information systems have not been the objects of much research. In this article, we analyse how the Bangladeshi employees of an INGO with headquarters in the United Kingdom and a country branch in Bangladesh are using accountability tools and information systems developed by and for English speakers and how they are coming up with work practices that are more attuned with their cultural and linguistic preferences.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-07-2019
Publisher: Australian Society of Archivists
Date: 09-2020
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 03-1995
DOI: 10.1017/S0165115300021173
Abstract: All over Southeast Asia, the perception that the European colonizers had of the Chinese was characterized by a fundamental ambiguity. On the one hand, the Chinese were recognized to be very useful, and even indispensable to the economic development/exploitation of the colonial territories, as they were hard-working labourers, possessed needed entrepreneurial, commercial and technical skills and had already established trade contacts with the indigenous populations. But, on the other hand, the Chinese were perceived as a potential political threat because of their strong communal organization and solidarity, their secret societies and their frequent clan fights.
Publisher: Australian Society of Archivists
Date: 02-09-2021
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 31-01-2019
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 22-12-2022
Abstract: This article uses continuum theory to analyse how Bangladeshi rural women who participated in an information and communication technology for development (ICT4D) project accessed and preserved information during and after the end of the project. Semi-structured interviews were conducted over the phone with a s le of the project participants two years after the end of the ICT4D project, and a survey of all the participants in one village was conducted face-to-face by one of the project participants using a questionnaire developed by the author. The majority of the participants used paper notebooks to write down information that they received in digital format during the project as a guarantee against the fragility of digital data and continued to use them to access and preserve information after the end of the project. The author suggests that the application of proactive appraisal during the planning stage and throughout ICT4D projects can ensure that the longer-term needs of the communities for information and their capacities to use specific formats will be considered. The author applies the continuum theory concept of proactive appraisal to the use of information in an ICT4D context and argues that it can help with assessing the information needs of marginalised communities and the technologies and formats that should be used to ensure that the information provided to them will remain accessible for as long as they need it.
Publisher: Australian Society of Archivists
Date: 27-04-2021
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-10-2019
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2021
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 21-02-2022
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to report on the exploration of women farmers' information literacy (IL) in the context of rural Bangladesh within the context of an ICT-based women empowerment project. This study uses thematic analysis of qualitative data collected during a culturally sensitive workshop on IL with a group of project participants. The findings showed that women understood their information needs and where to find information, which indicates that participants had some basic IL skills. However, the online environment presented challenges for them to evaluate the quality of the information and its relevance to their daily activities. The cultural complexity of IL was observed with the rural women’s information practices affected by family patterns, community and religion, amongst other social factors. Collective practices are made highly evident by the women’s natural tendency to share phones and information and by the way information is maintained. While the collective practices are very useful in utilising information for daily needs, the downside is that women are potentially vulnerable to threats in an online environment when sharing confidential information. This article shows that in the context of rural Bangladesh, women farmers’ information-seeking behaviour and practices of sharing and creating information are influenced by sociocultural characteristics. It describes how the women’s situational context of collectivity and power relations influence their ways of handling information.
Publisher: Australian Society of Archivists
Date: 02-09-2015
Publisher: Australian Society of Archivists
Date: 02-01-2020
Publisher: Australian Society of Archivists
Date: 04-05-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1995
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 18-12-2019
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the creation and sharing of information by Bangladeshi women participants in a community informatics project and to assess to what extent the information provided to them meets their short and longer-term needs. The analysis is based on data collected during a workshop with village women in Dhaka and focus group discussions in rural Bangladesh in March and April 2019. The information continuum model is used as a framework to analyse the data. The study shows that the women document their learning and share it with their families and communities and that they are very conscious of the importance of keeping analogue back-ups of the information provided to them in digital format. They use notebooks to write down information that they find useful and they copy information provided to them on brown paper sheets hung in the village community houses. This paper raises questions about how information is communicated to village women, organised and integrated in a community informatics project, and more generally about the suitability and sustainability of providing information in digital formats in a developing country. The paper shows how village women participants in a community informatics project in Bangladesh took the initiative to create and preserve the information that was useful to them in analogue formats to remedy the limitations of the digital formats and to keep the information accessible in the longer term.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-08-2020
DOI: 10.1007/S10502-020-09349-6
Abstract: The Continuum concept of pluralisation is often misunderstood. This paper aims to explain how records are embedded in the society that created them from the time of their creation and how they can be further embedded throughout their lifespan by adding metadata to them, placing them in context, making them accessible to those who will need them in the future and potentially sharing them with the broader society according to societal rules. The author proposes to use the concept of societal embeddedness, which indicates that pluralisation is not just about sharing in the future, but also about incorporating societal expectations in records and recordkeeping systems, to help explain the concept of pluralisation. She shows how using simple ex les from everyday life and discussing the societal context of the creation and use of records can help explain Records Continuum concepts, and in particular the concept of pluralisation, to students from non-English speaking backgrounds.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 21-06-2019
Location: Belgium
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Start Date: 2021
End Date: 2023
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 01-2021
End Date: 01-2024
Amount: $399,429.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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