RLABS: A SOUTH AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE ON A COMMUNITY-DRIVEN APPROACH TO COMMUNITY INFORMATICS
Parker, Marlon, Wills, Julia and Wills, Gary (2012) RLABS: A SOUTH AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE ON A COMMUNITY-DRIVEN APPROACH TO COMMUNITY INFORMATICS. Journal of Community Informatics
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Description/Abstract
Stakeholders in a community project commonly include academics, businesses, and people from within the community. Community empowerment is a central motivation for community informatics; however it is debatable how the community is empowered and benefits from many community research projects. This paper presents a community-driven case study, Reconstructed Living Lab, identifying factors that aid or hinder community-driven technological innovations. The RLabs case study identifies the community as the main stakeholder and identifies the factors that aid or hinder community empowerment. The conclusion is that Living Labs is an appropriate and effective vehicle for community empowerment.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 1712-4441 |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Physical and Applied Science > Electronics and Computer Science > Electronic & Software Systems |
| Item ID: | 273137 |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jan 2012 21:45 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Mar 2012 12:21 |
| Contributors: | Parker, Marlon (Author) Wills, Julia (Author) Wills, Gary (Author) |
| Date: | 2012 |
| Status: | Published |
| Further Information: | Google Scholar |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/273137 |
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