Open Development : Networked Innovations in International Development

Matthew L. Smith, Katherine M. A. Reilly

• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781552505687
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Science & Technology Public Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The emergence of open networked models made possible by digital technology has the potential to transform international development. Open network structures allow people to come together to share information, organize, and collaborate. Open development harnesses this power to create new organizational forms and improve people's lives; it is not only an agenda for research and practice but also a statement about how to approach international development. In this volume, experts explore a variety of applications of openness, addressing challenges as well as opportunities.Open development requires new theoretical tools that focus on real world problems, consider a variety of solutions, and recognize the complexity of local contexts. After exploring the new theoretical terrain, the book describes a range of cases in which open models address specific development issues such as biotechnology research, improving education, and access to scholarly publications. Contributors then examine tensions between open models and existing structures, including struggles over privacy, intellectual property, and implementation. Finally, contributors offer broader conceptual perspectives, considering processes of social construction, knowledge management, and the role of individual intent in the development and outcomes of social models.

Table of contents

• Foreword
• Yochai Benkler
• 1 Introduction
• Matthew L. Smith and Katherine M. A. Reilly
• 2 The Emergence of Open Development in a Network Society
• Katherine M. A. Reilly and Matthew L. Smith
• Part I Models of Openness
• 3 Enacting Openness in ICT4D Research
• Melissa Loudon and Ulrike Rivett
• 4 Transparency and Development: Ethical Consumption through Web 2.0 and the Internet of Things
• Mark Graham and Håvard Haarstad
• 5 Open Source Biotechnology Platforms for Global Health and Development: Two Case Studies
• Hassan Masum, Karl Schroeder, Myra Khan, and Abdallah Daar
• 6 Open Educational Resources: Opportunities and Challenges for the Developing World
• Marshall S. Smith
• II Openness in Tension
• 7 Establishing Public-ness in the Network: New Moorings for Development—A Critique of the Concepts of Openness and Open Development
• Parminder Jeet Singh and Anita Gurumurthy
• 8 Centering the Knowledge Peripheries through Open Access: Implications for Future Research and Discourse on Knowledge for Development
• Leslie Chan and Eve Gray
• 9 Open Government and Citizen Identities: Promise, Peril, and Policy
• Aaron K. Martin and Carla M. Bonina
• 10 Open Minds: Lessons from Nigeria on Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Development
• Jeremy de Beer and Chidi Oguamanam
• III Constructing Openness
• 11 Negotiating Openness across Science, ICTs, and Participatory Development: Lessons from the AfricaAdapt Network
• Blane Harvey
• 12 Open Data, Knowledge Management, and Development: New Challenges to Cognitive Justice
• Katherine M. A. Reilly
• 13 Open Development Is a Freedom Song: Revealing Intent and Freeing Power
• Ineke Buskens