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our presentation. My name is Manika Saha
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Monash University, Australia. This paper has been co-authored with my incredible research team.
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Historically CCW and HCI for development researchers in the global south have
advocated for a community-based approach to technology design and development. However,
even with this “bottom-up" emphasis, the sustainability and scalability of the
resulting innovations remain major challenges and are poorly understood. Literature demonstrated
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of how global development practitioners use innovation to generate informed practice
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Further, there is little well-articulated literature on the high-level political
contexts and actors in Global South countries, such as the political visions and priorities
influencing and driving ICTD programs and how projects and policies change as they go through
central authorities (from the government to national and international organizations)
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the high-level decision-making environment in which policies and programs are implemented,
and in which digital innovation must embrace bottom-up sustainable impact.
We aimed to explore the complex network of decision-making stakeholders to understand
their perceptions and insights around current ICT priorities,
collaboration among stakeholders, and practices for program development and implementation.
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the current development landscape and its priorities for digital
technologies, we conducted 14 interviews with influential high-level Bangladeshi
policy decision-makers, central government officials, senior NGO staff, and UN officials,
who are actively involved in shaping Bangladesh’s current nutrition policy and program strategy.
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on three themes that emerged that may inhibit a bottom-up approach to sustainable ICT program
development in Bangladesh. These are 1) the factors that shape innovation
and higher-level stakeholder (governments and donors) priorities for ICTD programs,
2) an evidence-based approach to ICT programs, and 3) competition and power dynamics.
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first, we need to understand the needs and donor interests that ship as CTD programs. digital
innovations are seen as core of activity national political manifestos, and over agendas such as
the sustainable development goals or nutrition in Bangladesh. Moreover, donors interest in and
quality practice for specific digital health innovation, right respondent organizations
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barriers to address the bottom of minutes, challenges and priorities
and results in a concrete vision of customer development. Secondly,
we need to understand decision makers perceptions of innovation are shaped by their applicability
to higher level stakeholders. Our study found competition lack of contextual understanding how
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which will take place and the failure of ICTs in public health nutrition programs.
Unknown Speaker 3:53 Need to also understand the practices, perceptions
and expectations of decision makers. Decision makers look for new approaches and innovations
to improve their quality, their Service Delivery efficient work management with human resources
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evaluation of interventions and programs. However, Mr. Orban is to meet first,
there are politically motivated tendencies to achieve national recognition by acquisition
innovations. Our research also suggests that this isn't because the efficient
program development group will often have unrealistic expectations of innovations.
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variation as a result, there is a lack of provision for other groups as ICT
based building nutrition interventions for the elderly population. Partner no planning doesn't
actually consider Youth Center or culture our design died out for the findings indicate the
utilization of evidence based output is relevant to ICT programs at the top level.
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and approaches from other countries. There are also some political will in Bangladesh to create
evidence based app purchased for nutrition promote development, strategic interactions.
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Our study found that while multi syndrome stick protocol was crucial
in nutrition policies and programs in Bangladesh, they are in practice still we
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intersect properly among similar organizations. This is mainly due to the lack of teamwork
maturity, lack of clarity about each other's objectives, responsibilities and priorities that
internal competition for lead programs. However, distant highlights that secret
collaborations are positive in planning and documentations. Especially in terms of
monitoring evolutionary strategy. Presentation state Yes, although there is a there is often
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understand the high level decision making context really comment actually,
how can we understand the top in this context? Sorry, recommendation actually
generate four kinds of factors to understand first we need to consider external factors
that actors more specifically, it's a poor development researchers and designers need to
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such as going into your steering groups and donors, you know, targeted international
development sector. Second, we need to consider internal factors to understand the dynamics of
these intermediaries by understanding their political motivations, existing competitions,
perceptions and expectations of using our cities in development programs and policies. Third,
we need to understand vertical mechanisms and interactions. Finally, we need to
consider origin mechanism and interactions by considering existing practices and processes
within innovations. These include understanding how these diverse decision making actors work
and collaborate with each other and dynamics of their diverse corporations and intermediaries.
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opportunity for itself for development researchers to engage as a mediators to foster this.
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only interaction where they can both understand the space the design of specific interventions
for sustainable sustained impact. What our findings showed that there is an increased
interest in developing new technologies related innovations among colleagues and
CO brand creators who raise this is as this is a critical challenge for ICD and it said forever.
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create new technologies raises a tension between the central practice of governance
and sustainability. We also argue, because she's a Christian here and advise that any
efforts to mediate youth engagement with the decision makers need to be carried
out with the utmost care. We recommend that every national and regional development context has
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for innovation rollout due to factors such as high early adoption rates or element with
national median does it need to be there other other studies we satisfy it's a for development
researchers that bottom of development needs to Aptos we are deeper understanding of decision
makers interest and challenges. To do that we recommend it set for development such
as become program design mediators, panic decision makers and marginalized communities
voices why space program development, consider careful innovation results and make efforts to
leverage existing technologies and platforms for sustainable isolation for global development.
Unknown Speaker 9:25 Thank you, everyone,
for listening. My presentation.