CHS: Large: Collaborative Research: Achieving Development Goals with Information Technology

CHS：大型：合作研究：利用信息技术实现发展目标

• 批准号: 1412969
• 负责人: Paul Leonardi
• 金额: $ 41.84万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-07-15 至 2020-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1412969&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CHS; Large; Collaborative; Research; Achieving

This research seeks to discover the factors that can predict project success and guide decisions about funding, designing, and implementing major projects intended to use information and communication technology for socio-economic development. In the past five years, over ten billion dollars of US and international government funding have been invested in such projects, with private technology funding adding substantially to that figure. Yet, many of these projects fail. Existing theories emphasize the inability of technology designers in developed countries to understand the needs and context of users in developing countries. But that approach is at best incomplete because it focuses on the technology while ignoring the link between the technology and development outcomes. This research will go beyond a strict technology focus by exploring the interplay between technology plans and development goals. The project will be organized in a series of steps employing multiple research methodologies, that logically build on each other. Case studies of four existing information technology development projects, including interviews and extended observation, will provide a deep conceptual basis for the subsequent work. Based on analysis of the observational and interview data, a questionnaire survey will be developed and administered to about sixty other comparable projects. Following analysis of the survey, a set of ten to twelve shorter case studies will then explore a diversity of projects and their contexts, to expand the theoretical system of analysis and identify issues that were not apparent in the first four case studies. The resulting extensive, mixed-methods base of data will allow identification of the factors that shape project success or failure, as well as building and testing of emerging hypotheses so that the research team can construct strong theory. The resulting theory will provide the groundwork for future research, and enhance the existing scientific literature on this problem with the development scholarship and sensibility that currently is missing from it. This effort to better understand and predict project success and failure will have the potential to reap significant benefits for the populations that these projects target, for the nations whose development is at hand, and for the entities who provide the funding and who share the aspirations of those who seek to see life improved.

本研究旨在发现可以预测项目成功的因素，并指导有关资助、设计和实施旨在利用信息和通信技术促进社会经济发展的重大项目的决策。 过去五年中，超过百亿美元的美国和国际政府资金投入到此类项目中，私人技术资金大幅增加了这一数字。 然而，其中许多项目都失败了。 现有理论强调发达国家的技术设计者无法理解发展中国家用户的需求和背景。 但这种方法充其量是不完整的，因为它专注于技术，而忽略了技术与发展成果之间的联系。 这项研究将超越严格的技术重点，探索技术计划和发展目标之间的相互作用。 该项目将采用多种研究方法分一系列步骤进行组织，这些方法在逻辑上相互基础。 对四个现有信息技术开发项目的案例研究，包括访谈和扩展观察，将为后续工作提供深厚的概念基础。 根据对观察和访谈数据的分析，将对大约六十个其他类似项目进行问卷调查和管理。对调查进行分析后，将进行一组十到十二个较短的案例研究，探索各种项目及其背景，以扩展分析的理论体系并找出前四个案例研究中不明显的问题。由此产生的广泛的、混合方法的数据基础将允许识别影响项目成功或失败的因素，以及建立和测试新出现的假设，以便研究团队能够构建强有力的理论。 由此产生的理论将为未来的研究奠定基础，并通过目前缺乏的发展学术和敏感性来增强有关该问题的现有科学文献。 这种更好地理解和预测项目成功和失败的努力将有可能为这些项目的目标人群、即将发展的国家以及提供资金和有共同愿望的实体带来重大利益。那些寻求生活改善的人。