<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Please circulate</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div><div>Gianluca Miscione<br>​University College Dublin<br><a href="http://www.ucd.ie/mis/members/gianlucamiscione/" target="_blank">http://www.ucd.ie/mis/members/gianlucamiscione/</a><br> <br><br><br><br></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Masiero,S</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:S.Masiero@lse.ac.uk" target="_blank">S.Masiero@lse.ac.uk</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 10:56 AM<br>Subject: [Quadrangular] LSE workshop: ICTs, Mobiles & Markets in Developing Nations<br>To: "<a href="mailto:quadrangular@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">quadrangular@googlegroups.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:quadrangular@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">quadrangular@googlegroups.com</a>><br><br><br>




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<p>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.</p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">A Round Table Discussion<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Thursday, 17^th March 2016, 3-5pm<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Room 4.21, New Academic Building, LSE Campus<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">54, Lincoln’s inn Fields, London WC2A 3LJ<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Research on the role of ICTs in socio-economic development (ICT4D) has acquired a paramount position in the Information Systems domain.
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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<i>
</i>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.<u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
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 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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Laura
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 is </span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">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
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 is a lecturer in Global Digital Culture at the Centre for Media Studies, SOAS, University of London.
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 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.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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 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. </span></p>
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