Making Open Development Inclusive: Lessons from IDRC Research

by Matthew L. Smith (Editor), Ruhiya Kristine Seward (Editor), Robin Mansell (Foreword by)

Overview

Drawing on ten years of empirical work and research, analyses of how open development has played out in practice.

A decade ago, a significant trend toward openness emerged in international development. "Open development" can describe initiatives as disparate as open government, open health data, open science, open education, and open innovation. The theory was that open systems related to data, science, and innovation would enable more inclusive processes of human development. This volume, drawing on ten years of empirical work and research, analyzes how open development has played out in practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780262358835
Publisher:	MIT Press
Publication date:	08/25/2020
Series:	International Development Research Centre
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	512
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

Matthew L. Smith is Senior Program Specialist at the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa. He is coeditor of Open Development: Networked Innovation in International Development (MIT Press and IDRC). Ruhiya Kristine Seward is Senior Program Officer at the International Development Research Centre.

Table of Contents

Preface vii 
Acknowledgments ix 
Foreword by Robin Mansell xi 
1 Introduction: Governing Openness in an Unequal World 1 
Matthew L. Smith and Ruhiya Kristine Seward 
I Defining Open Development 
2 Updating Open Development: Open Practices in Inclusive Development 23 
Matthew L. Smith and Ruhiya Kristine Seward 
3 Open Innovation in Development: Integrating Theory and Practice across Open Science, Open Access, and Open Data 51 
Jeremy de Beer 
II Governing the Open Development Ecosystem 
4 Gender and Equity in Openness: Forgotten Spaces 87 
Sonal Zaveri 
5 The Geographic Contours of Openness 119 
Mark Graham and Stefano De Sabbata 
6 Ecologies of (Open) Access: Toward a Knowledge Society 143 
Laura Czerniewicz 
7 Open Provision: Changing Economic and Human Development Perspectives 157 
William Randall Spence and Matthew L. Smith 
8 Openness in Telecommunications Reform and Practice: The Case of Open Access Broadband Networks, Public Wi-Fi, and Zero-Rating 183
Alison Gillwald 
9 Who Benefits from Open Models? The Role of ICT Access in the Consumption of Open Activities 219
Roxana Barrantes and Paulo Matos III Governing Open Development Applications 
10 Open Government Data for Inclusive Development 251 
François van Schalkwyk and Michael Cañares 
11 Governing Open Health Data in Latin America 291 
Carla Bonina and Fabrizio Scrollini 
12 Open Educational Resources and Practices in the Global South: Degrees of Social Inclusion 317
Henry Trotter and Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams 
13 Toward an Inclusive, Open, and Collaborative Science: Lessons from OCSDNet 357 
Rebecca Hillyer, Denisse Albornoz, Alejandro Posada, Angela Okune, and Leslie Chan 
14 The Inclusivity of Crowdsourcing and Implications for Development 381 
Savita Bailur and Raed Sharif 
15 Open Innovation in Africa: Current Realities, Future Scenarios, and Scalable Solutions 403 
Jeremy de Beer, Chris Armstrong, Shirin Elahi, Dick Kawooya, Erika Kramer-Mbula, Caroline Ncube, Chidi Oguamanam, Nagla Rizk, Isaac Rutenberg, and Tobias Schonwetter 
16 Conclusion: Understanding the Inclusive Potential of Open Development 431 
Ruhiya Kristine Seward 
Contributors 447 
Index 459