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The Influence of Global Alliances on ICT Policy in Developing Countries: Insights from eHealth Globalization in Africa

Explore how global identities and alliances shape ICT policy in developing nations, focusing on eHealth in Africa. Delve into the narratives, processes, and actors involved in ICT policymaking, examining the socio-technical and complex nature of the policy process. Understand the role of alliances, identities, and power dynamics in shaping these policies.

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The Influence of Global Alliances on ICT Policy in Developing Countries: Insights from eHealth Globalization in Africa

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  1. How new Global Alliances and Identities shape ICT Policy in Developing Countries: Insights from Globalization of eHealth in Africa Dr Adesina Iluyemi PhD Candidate adesina.iluyemi@port.ac.uk ICT Policy in Developing Countries CDI, University of Manchester March 2010

  2. ICT Policymaking as Narratives • Process captured in texts, speeches, languages and discourses of: • Actors • Organizations • Institutions • Captured in meetings, conferences, workshops, observations, participations, roundtables, conversations & rapports • Social Study of Technology (SST) • Global-Local Divide

  3. ICT Policymaking as an Ethnography • eHealth4D Policy Ethnography • Evolution • Narratives • eHealth for International Development • eHealth Diplomacy • Technology determinism • Participation, Involvement in and Observations of eHealth Policy conferences, projects, meetings • Ethnographic Identity • Policy Advocate • Speaker/Researcher • Convenor • Chair

  4. ICT POLICY-MAKING PROCESS

  5. PROCESS DRIVERS • Globalization • Power Asymmetry • Personal and Enlightened Interests • Technology Transfers • Socio-economic Development • National Mainstreaming • (Sustainability & Scalability)

  6. ICT POLICY PRODUCTS • GLOBAL IDENTITIES • Corporate • Individuals • ALLIANCES • COMPLEXES • Shapes & Influences Process • Iterative and dynamic • Action (Process) conditions Structures (Products)

  7. IDENTITIES: CORPORATE • Mercantilism • Capitalism • Donorism • Globalism • Patronage • Diplomacy • Imperialism • Territorialism • Nationalism • Techno-centricism • Techno-scholarship • Techno-governance • Agency

  8. IDENTITIES: INDIVIDUAL • Entrepreneurialism • Altruism • Techno-scholarship • Technocracy • Punditry • Activism • Agency

  9. ALLIANCES • eHealth Technocratic alliance • Global eHealth4D activist alliance • Global eHealth capitalist alliance • IGO-NGO eHealth Governance alliance • Global eHealth4D donor –academia pact • Global eHealth Governance Agency

  10. COMPLEXES • Altruist –Corporate behavioural complex • North-South-South- patronage complex • Global mercantile-altruistic complex • eHealth4D expert-altruist behavioural complex • Global eHealth4D sciolism

  11. Nature of ICT Policy Process • Socio-technical • Hazy • Disempowering • Multi-stakeholder • Complex • Paternalistic • Globalized • Vertical • Entangled • Interest-Driven • Techno-centric • Industrial • Commercial • Counter-productive

  12. THE POLICY NATURE DYNAMICS

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