How ICT sourcing and development affects social development
Working Group 9.4 from the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) is a scholarly forum for dealing with the issues ICT impacting social development. The IFIP 9.4 Working Croup has a series of scholarly conferences that seek critical perspectives on processes of growth and development, inclusiveness and social transformation through the impacts of global ICT and BPO sourcing. http://2017.ifipwg94.net/tracks/track-09-global-sourcing-and-development/ (also see Submission deadline: November 15, 2016 Mt Merapi, the most active volcano in Indonesia (image source Wikipedia ) Our interest is in how ICT sourcing and globally distributed software development activity is implicated in local social development in the regions from which these activities are sourced. Going one step further we assert that the research object of a 'national' need and response is too abstract, that we need to understand the local rather than national context if meaningful engagement in devel...