Unit: 4 Topic: Community Participation and Sustainable Development

Unit: 4 Topic
Community Participation and Sustainable Development

Participation takes different forms in different societies- people may participate by
expressing their development needs by demanding solutions or by expressing
discontentment.
In some societies participation is passive in others it is active.
Participation could be functional or popular participation. Functional Participation is
where people participate in development programmes but as directed by the
government. Govt. mobilizes the people to attain the goals it sets for societies
development, economic or social. Thus people become participants in development
process, although the choice of what they do and how they do is not always theirs.
On the other hand, popular participation is involving large masses of people in decision
making and actual implementation of the programmes.
Sustainable Development Model
 Local resources should be used for development

 The resources should be sustainable for development for a long term
 The resources must be recycled and environment friendly
Developmental Agencies of Government

Reporting on Development Projects
Communication Technologies and Development Communication
Information and communication technologies for development refers to the
application of information and communication technologies (ICT) toward
social, economic, and political development, with a particular emphasis on
helping poor and marginalized people and communities. It aims to help in
international development by bridging the digital divide and providing
equitable access to technologies. It is grounded in the notions of
"development", "growth", "progress" and "globalization" and is often
interpreted as the use of technology to deliver a greater good. Another
similar term used in the literature is "digital development". It draws on
theories and frameworks from many disciplines, including sociology,
economics, development studies, library, information science, and
communication studies.
CTDC grew out of the attempts to use emerging computing technologies to
improve conditions in the developing countries. It formalized through a
series of reports, conferences, and funding initiatives that acted as key
policy-making avenues: the 1998 World Development Report from the
World Bank, highlighting the role of knowledge and ICTs in development; a
report from the G8 Digital Opportunities Task Force, concluding that ICTs
play a key role in modern human development, the World Summit on the
Information Society held in Geneva in 2003 and Tunis in 2005.
At least three phases can be identified in CTDC evolution:
CTDC 0.0: mid-1950s to late-1990s. The focus of this earliest phase was on
the use of IT (not ICT) in government and private sector organizations in
developing countries. One of the earliest computers used in a developing
country was a HEC machine installed in 1956 to undertake numerical
calculations in the Indian Institute of Statistics in Kolkata.
CTDC 1.0: late-1990s to late-2000s. The advent of the Millennium
Development Goals combined with the rise and spread of the Internet in
industrialized countries led to a rapid increase in investments in ICT
infrastructure and projects in developing countries. The most typical
application was the telecentre, used to bring information on development
issues such as health, education, and agricultural extension, into poor
communities.
CTDC 2.0: late-2000s to mid-2010s. There is no clear boundary between
phases 1.0 and 2.0. The focus in phase 2.0 increasingly shifts toward
technologies in use, such as the mobile phone and SMS technologies.
There is less concern with e-readiness and more interest in the impact of
ICTs on development. Additionally, there is more focus on the poor as
producers and innovators with ICTs (as opposed to being consumers of
ICT-based information). CTDC 2.0 is about reframing the poor. Where
CTDC 1.0 marginalized them, allowing a supply-driven focus, CTDC 2.0
centralizes them, creating a demand-driven focus. Where CTDC 1.0 –
fortified by the "bottom of the pyramid" concept – characterized them
largely as passive consumers, CTDC 2.0 sees the poor as active producers
and active innovators.
Current Evolution: The most prominent recent change has been a shift in
focus from the proliferation of communication (1970s & 1990s) and
information (1990s & 2000s), to the extraction of knowledge from the
resulting data. A shift from “‘Information Societies’ to ‘Knowledge
Societies’”. Work focused on the use of big data for development quickly
led to AI4D (Artificial Intelligence for Development).

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 Local resources should be used for development

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