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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.
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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
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
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
PROCESS DRIVERS • Globalization • Power Asymmetry • Personal and Enlightened Interests • Technology Transfers • Socio-economic Development • National Mainstreaming • (Sustainability & Scalability)
ICT POLICY PRODUCTS • GLOBAL IDENTITIES • Corporate • Individuals • ALLIANCES • COMPLEXES • Shapes & Influences Process • Iterative and dynamic • Action (Process) conditions Structures (Products)
IDENTITIES: CORPORATE • Mercantilism • Capitalism • Donorism • Globalism • Patronage • Diplomacy • Imperialism • Territorialism • Nationalism • Techno-centricism • Techno-scholarship • Techno-governance • Agency
IDENTITIES: INDIVIDUAL • Entrepreneurialism • Altruism • Techno-scholarship • Technocracy • Punditry • Activism • Agency
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
COMPLEXES • Altruist –Corporate behavioural complex • North-South-South- patronage complex • Global mercantile-altruistic complex • eHealth4D expert-altruist behavioural complex • Global eHealth4D sciolism
Nature of ICT Policy Process • Socio-technical • Hazy • Disempowering • Multi-stakeholder • Complex • Paternalistic • Globalized • Vertical • Entangled • Interest-Driven • Techno-centric • Industrial • Commercial • Counter-productive