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  title info:
    title: Monitoring movements in development aid
    sub title: recursive partnerships and infrastructures
  name:
    name part: Jensen, Casper Bruun
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Winthereik, Brit Ross
    name part: 1973-
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2013
    copyright date: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xix, 192 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: An examination of emerging information infrastructures that are intended to increase accountability and effectiveness in partnerships for development aid.In Monitoring Movements in Development Aid, Casper Jensen and Brit Winthereik consider the processes, social practices, and infrastructures that are emerging to monitor development aid, discussing both empirical phenomena and their methodological and analytical challenges. Jensen and Winthereik focus on efforts by aid organizations to make better use of information technology; they analyze a range of development aid information infrastructures created to increase accountability and effectiveness. They find that constructing these infrastructures is not simply a matter of designing and implementing technology but entails forging new platforms for action that are simultaneously imaginative and practical, conceptual and technical. After presenting an analytical platform that draws on science and technology studies and the anthropology of development, Jensen and Winthereik present an ethnography- based analysis of the mutually defining relationship between aid partnerships and infrastructures; the crucial role of users (both actual and envisioned) in aid information infrastructures; efforts to make aid information dynamic and accessible; existing monitoring activities of an environmental NGO; and national-level performance audits, which encompass concerns of both external control and organizational learning.Jensen and Winthereik argue that central to the emerging movement to monitor development aid is the blurring of means and ends: aid information infrastructures are both technological platforms for knowledge about aid and forms of aid and empowerment in their own right.
  note: Casper Bruun Jensen and Brit Ross Winthereik.
  subject:
    topic: Economic assistance
    topic: Information technology
  subject:
    topic: Economic development projects
    topic: Evaluation
  subject:
    topic: Information technology
    topic: Economic aspects
  subject:
    topic: Infrastructure (Economics)
  subject:
    topic: Economic development
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
  subject:
    topic: INFORMATION SCIENCE/General
  subject:
    topic: INFORMATION SCIENCE/Technology & Policy
  classification: HC60 .J43 2013eb
  classification: 338.91
  identifier: 9781461942962
  identifier: 1461942969
  identifier: 9780262317016
  identifier: 026231701X
  identifier: 1299848486
  identifier: 9781299848481
  identifier: 9780262019651
  identifier: 0262019655
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: OCoLC-P
    record creation date: 131021
    record change date: 20221121162641.6
    record identifier: in00004602448
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng