[STS-Africa] Fwd: [Quadrangular] LSE workshop: ICTs, Mobiles & Markets in Developing Nations

[Gianluca Miscione]

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Gianluca Miscione
​University College Dublin
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From: Masiero,S <S.Masiero at lse.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 10:56 AM
Subject: [Quadrangular] LSE workshop: ICTs, Mobiles & Markets in Developing
Nations
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Hi all! Please forward through relevant networks. We are having a great
workshop on ICTs & developing country markets at LSE, we look
forward welcome all those interested.


All the best,


Silvia


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*ICTs, Mobiles and Markets in the Developing World:*

*A Round Table Discussion*



*Thursday, 17th March 2016, 3-5pm*



*Room 4.21, New Academic Building, LSE Campus*

*54, Lincoln’s inn Fields, London WC2A 3LJ*



Research on the role of ICTs in socio-economic development (ICT4D) has
acquired a paramount position in the Information Systems domain. In this
context, a somewhat silent orthodoxy has emerged: that ICTs, improving
information and communication across actors, lie behind the creation of
more accountable markets in the developing world. Stories of mobile phone
usage in agriculture and fisheries, as well as narratives of ICTs enabling
banking and entrepreneurship in previously isolated regions, are becoming
ubiquitous in the literature.  However evidence in this respect is mixed,
and the link between ICTs and developing country markets needs to be
examined in its own right.



In this session, the role of mobiles & ICTs in developing country markets
will be discussed by three experts in the field. Different geographic foci,
as well as diverse theoretical perspectives, will lead us to rediscuss the
existing orthodoxy on the topic, and propose alternative explanations to
it. The session will be structured as a round table, aimed at mapping
existing knowledge on this timely theme and build cross-disciplinary
synergies around it.



*Participants:*



*Laura Mann* is an assistant professor in the international development
department at the LSE whose research concerns the political economy of
markets and new ICTs in Africa. Her current work focuses on the
appropriation and reproduction of value from big data in ICT4D projects in
Africa.



*Elisa Oreglia* is a lecturer in Global Digital Culture at the Centre for
Media Studies, SOAS, University of London. She studies the appropriation of
digital media among marginal users in China and Myanmar, with a focus on
local knowledge production and information sharing practices in markets.



*Silvia Masiero* is a teaching fellow in Management and International
Development at LSE. Her research focuses on ICTs and poverty reduction,
with a focus on food security and social policy schemes in India.



If wish to participate, please email k.m.koskinen at lse.ac.uk to secure
a place.

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