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UNINA9910815198603321 |
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Autore |
Jensen Casper Bruun |
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Monitoring movements in development aid : recursive partnerships and infrastructures / / Casper Bruun Jensen and Brit Ross Winthereik |
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Cambridge, Mass. : , : The MIT Press, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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ISBN |
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0-262-31702-8 |
0-262-31701-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (213 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Economic assistance - Information technology |
Economic development projects - Evaluation |
Information technology - Economic aspects |
Infrastructure (Economics) |
Economic development |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Infrastructures and development aid: fields, fractals and frictions -- Recursions: partnerships, infrastructure, ethnography -- Inventive frontiers: aid infrastructures and their users -- Development loop: technological politics for transparency -- Weedy infrastructure: monitoring environmental partnerships -- Wormholes: loops of audit and learning -- Monitoring movements. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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