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Richard Heeks & Carolyne Stanforth Centre for Development Informatics, IDPM

Understanding Development Project Implementation: An Actor-Network Perspective on Local-Global Interactions. Richard Heeks & Carolyne Stanforth Centre for Development Informatics, IDPM University of Manchester, UK http://www.manchester.ac.uk/cdi. Centre for Development Informatics.

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Richard Heeks & Carolyne Stanforth Centre for Development Informatics, IDPM

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  1. Understanding Development Project Implementation:An Actor-Network Perspective on Local-Global Interactions Richard Heeks & Carolyne Stanforth Centre for Development Informatics, IDPM University of Manchester, UK http://www.manchester.ac.uk/cdi Centre for Development Informatics

  2. Development Projects: Knowledge Gaps The ‘inner workings’ of development projects The connection to project trajectories Politics and power within projects

  3. Degree of attachment of actors in global network High Law & Callon: Local/Global Networks SOLID, INDISPENSABLE PROJECT Low High Degree of mobilisation of local network actors Global network: resource-providing Local network: project-implementing Project as OPP between local and global WEAK, DISAGGREGATING PROJECT Low

  4. Global Network Senior MoF The Sri Lanka PEMS Project ADB Institute of Public Finance Project as OPP Consultants Line Ministry staff State Accounts Dept staff National Budget Dept staff Local Network CIGAS/TAS

  5. PEMS Project Trajectory Phase One: Initiation and Consultant Strategy Phase Two: Crisis and Redesign Phase Three: Delivery and Completion

  6. C D B G F E Degree of attachment of actors in global network High PEMS Project Network Analysis Low High Degree of mobilisation of local network actors Low

  7. Conclusions: ANT and Development Projects Insights into inner workings Trajectory is more than success/failure Trajectory as a function of networks and OPP “Power to” not “Power over”

  8. Conclusions: ANT and Practice Subjectivity of selection Flexible, improvised approach to projects Relational, political approach to projects Richard Heeks & Carolyne Stanforth cdi@manchester.ac.uk http://www.manchester.ac.uk/cdi

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