Communication as information-seeking: the case for mobile social software for developing regions Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:3399814, abstract = {In this paper, we describe several findings from a multi-year, multi-method study of how information and communication technologies have been adopted and adapted in Central Asia. We have found that mobile phone usage is outpacing the rate of Internet adoption, that access to the Internet is primarily through public access sites carrying with it issues regarding privacy and surveillance, that people rely on their social networks as information sources, that public institutions tend to be fairly weak as citizen resources, and that information seeking and communication are conflated in people's usage patterns with different technologies. In addition, in the developed world social networking software has grown rapidly and shown itself to have significant potential for mobilizing a population. Based on the collection of findings from Central Asia and observing patterns of technology usage in other parts of the world, our research leads to the conclusion that exploring mobile social software holds significant potential as an ICT that meshes well with preexisting patterns of communication and information seeking and also leverages the most predominant pattern of technology adoption. Many of the findings from this research echo results from studies in other geographic areas, and so we anticipate that much of this research will be relevant to developing regions generally.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Kolko, Beth E. and Rose, Emma J. and Johnson, Erica J.}, booktitle = {WWW '07: Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web}, citeulike-article-id = {3399814}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1242572.1242689}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1242572.1242689}, doi = {10.1145/1242572.1242689}, isbn = {978-1-59593-654-7}, keywords = {communication, information, kazakhstan, mobility}, location = {Banff, Alberta, Canada}, pages = {863--872}, posted-at = {2009-09-13 19:24:06}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Communication as information-seeking: the case for mobile social software for developing regions}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1242572.1242689}, year = {2007} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:3399814 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3399814 N2 - In this paper, we describe several findings from a multi-year, multi-method study of how information and communication technologies have been adopted and adapted in Central Asia. We have found that mobile phone usage is outpacing the rate of Internet adoption, that access to the Internet is primarily through public access sites carrying with it issues regarding privacy and surveillance, that people rely on their social networks as information sources, that public institutions tend to be fairly weak as citizen resources, and that information seeking and communication are conflated in people's usage patterns with different technologies. In addition, in the developed world social networking software has grown rapidly and shown itself to have significant potential for mobilizing a population. Based on the collection of findings from Central Asia and observing patterns of technology usage in other parts of the world, our research leads to the conclusion that exploring mobile social software holds significant potential as an ICT that meshes well with preexisting patterns of communication and information seeking and also leverages the most predominant pattern of technology adoption. Many of the findings from this research echo results from studies in other geographic areas, and so we anticipate that much of this research will be relevant to developing regions generally. CY - Banff, Alberta, Canada SN - 978-1-59593-654-7 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 872 TI - Communication as information-seeking: the case for mobile social software for developing regions PB - ACM T2 - WWW '07: Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web SP - 863 KW - communication KW - information KW - kazakhstan KW - mobility AU - Kolko, Beth AU - Rose, Emma AU - Johnson, Erica PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1242572.1242689 ER -