TY - GEN
T1 - A Synthesis of the Causes of ICT4D Projects’ Pilotitis
T2 - IFIP WG 8.2 and WG 9.4 Joint Working Conference on After Latour: Globalisation, Inequity and Climate Change, IFIPJWC 2023
AU - Prinsloo, Tania
AU - Adebesin, Funmi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Countries from low-and-medium income sectors have faced several long-standing challenges, including poverty, unemployment and an overburdened healthcare system. In many of these countries, pilot Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) projects are typically implemented to help alleviate some of these challenges. However, many of these ICT4D projects have not had much success in being replicated in other contexts, a phenomenon that has earned the title of “pilotitis”. Several researchers in the ICT4D field have identified some of the causes of pilotitis, while others have offered solutions. However, despite inching closer to the 2030 deadline to accomplish the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, the challenge of pilotitis remains unresolved. In this paper, we present a synthesis of a systematic literature review of 25 research papers. The synthesis identified four broad causes of pilotitis and four broad areas of remedies to the “disease” that has plagued the ICT4D space for many years. The main contribution of the paper is the framework, “Pilotitis: Cause-Remedies Framework”, a tool that can be used to ensure that future ICT4D projects do not succumb to pilotitis and experience subsequent failures.
AB - Countries from low-and-medium income sectors have faced several long-standing challenges, including poverty, unemployment and an overburdened healthcare system. In many of these countries, pilot Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) projects are typically implemented to help alleviate some of these challenges. However, many of these ICT4D projects have not had much success in being replicated in other contexts, a phenomenon that has earned the title of “pilotitis”. Several researchers in the ICT4D field have identified some of the causes of pilotitis, while others have offered solutions. However, despite inching closer to the 2030 deadline to accomplish the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, the challenge of pilotitis remains unresolved. In this paper, we present a synthesis of a systematic literature review of 25 research papers. The synthesis identified four broad causes of pilotitis and four broad areas of remedies to the “disease” that has plagued the ICT4D space for many years. The main contribution of the paper is the framework, “Pilotitis: Cause-Remedies Framework”, a tool that can be used to ensure that future ICT4D projects do not succumb to pilotitis and experience subsequent failures.
KW - Cause-remedies Framework
KW - Pilotitis
KW - Sustainable ICT4D Projects
KW - Systematic Literature Review
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85180532560&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-50154-8_7
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-50154-8_7
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85180532560
SN - 9783031501531
T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
SP - 63
EP - 77
BT - After Latour
A2 - Jones, Matthew R.
A2 - Mukherjee, Arunima S.
A2 - Thapa, Devinder
A2 - Zheng, Yingqin
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 7 December 2023 through 8 December 2023
ER -
