Community-Centered, Project-Based ICT4D Education in the Field

Anna Bon; Jaap Gordijn; Hans Akkermans; Victor de Boer; André Baart; Cheah Wai Shiang; Sze San Nah

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Community-Centered, Project-Based ICT4D Education in the Field

Anna Bon^*, Jaap Gordijn, Hans Akkermans, Victor de Boer, André Baart, Cheah Wai Shiang, Sze San Nah

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The growing demand for user-centered, sustainable, collaborative and ecosystem-aware ICT4D programs and projects brings requirements for education of a new generation ICT4D professionals. This paper presents a post-graduate field-based course in ICT4D that teaches how to co-create and deploy community-centered ICT services. The course has been jointly organized and deployed by Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam and Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) for a mixed group of computer science, information science and artificial intelligence students from VU and UNIMAS. The course design, experiences, outcomes and evaluation are presented in this paper.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Information and Communication Technologies for Development. Strengthening Southern-Driven Cooperation as a Catalyst for ICT4D
Subtitle of host publication	15th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2019, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, May 1–3, 2019, Proceedings, Part II
Editors	Honest Christopher Kimaro, Petter Nielsen
Place of Publication	Cham, Switzerland
Publisher	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Pages	386-397
Number of pages	12
Volume	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030191153
ISBN (Print)	9783030191146
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19115-3_32
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	15th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2019 - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, United Republic of Duration: 1 May 2019 → 3 May 2019

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Name	IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Volume	552
ISSN (Print)	1868-4238

Conference

Conference	15th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2019
Country/Territory	Tanzania, United Republic of
City	Dar es Salaam
Period	1/05/19 → 3/05/19

Funding

Acknowledgements. The authors are grateful to Associate Professor Dr. Johari Abdullah, Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology from UNIMAS and Frans Snijders, Director of the International Office of VU Amsterdam for their great support to the project. We thank the community leader and inhabitants of Kampung Pinggan Jaya for their hospitality and collaboration. We thank the students Amir AziziMusa, Aron van Groningen, Ludwig Hoon, Kuan Huiggy, Giorgi Kikolashvili, Allard Oelen, Hameedat Omoine, Judith Schermer, Anastasios Sidiropoulos, Deva Ramakrishnan, Linh Tran, Chris Valladares, Nip van Wees for their work. We thank Leeuw van Moerkerken for filming and producing the video clips of the project. This project is part of the W4RA research program.

Keywords

Community service education
Context
Ecosystem awareness
ICT4D education
Information system development life cycle
Sustainability
User-centered approach

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Bon, A., Gordijn, J., Akkermans, H., de Boer, V., Baart, A., Shiang, C. W., & Nah, S. S. (2019). Community-Centered, Project-Based ICT4D Education in the Field. In H. C. Kimaro, & P. Nielsen (Eds.), Information and Communication Technologies for Development. Strengthening Southern-Driven Cooperation as a Catalyst for ICT4D: 15th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2019, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, May 1–3, 2019, Proceedings, Part II (Vol. 2, pp. 386-397). (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Vol. 552). Springer Nature Switzerland AG. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19115-3_32

Bon, Anna ; Gordijn, Jaap ; Akkermans, Hans et al. / Community-Centered, Project-Based ICT4D Education in the Field. Information and Communication Technologies for Development. Strengthening Southern-Driven Cooperation as a Catalyst for ICT4D: 15th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2019, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, May 1–3, 2019, Proceedings, Part II. editor / Honest Christopher Kimaro ; Petter Nielsen. Vol. 2 Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019. pp. 386-397 (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology).

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Bon, A , Gordijn, J, Akkermans, H, de Boer, V, Baart, A, Shiang, CW & Nah, SS 2019, Community-Centered, Project-Based ICT4D Education in the Field. in HC Kimaro & P Nielsen (eds), Information and Communication Technologies for Development. Strengthening Southern-Driven Cooperation as a Catalyst for ICT4D: 15th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2019, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, May 1–3, 2019, Proceedings, Part II. vol. 2, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol. 552, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 386-397, 15th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2019, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, United Republic of, 1/05/19. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19115-3_32

Community-Centered, Project-Based ICT4D Education in the Field. / Bon, Anna ; Gordijn, Jaap; Akkermans, Hans et al.
Information and Communication Technologies for Development. Strengthening Southern-Driven Cooperation as a Catalyst for ICT4D: 15th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2019, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, May 1–3, 2019, Proceedings, Part II. ed. / Honest Christopher Kimaro; Petter Nielsen. Vol. 2 Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019. p. 386-397 (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Vol. 552).

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Bon A , Gordijn J, Akkermans H, de Boer V, Baart A, Shiang CW et al. Community-Centered, Project-Based ICT4D Education in the Field. In Kimaro HC, Nielsen P, editors, Information and Communication Technologies for Development. Strengthening Southern-Driven Cooperation as a Catalyst for ICT4D: 15th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2019, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, May 1–3, 2019, Proceedings, Part II. Vol. 2. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG. 2019. p. 386-397. (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology). Epub 2019 Apr 27. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-19115-3_32

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