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Bill Gillis EFRsource efrsource Position Paper

Designing possible, probable and preferable futures with mobile web technology advancing social development. Bill Gillis EFRsource http://efrsource.com Position Paper. Overview. Human system questions that impact acceptance and use of ICT.

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Bill Gillis EFRsource efrsource Position Paper

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  1. Designing possible, probable and preferable futures with mobile web technology advancing social development Bill Gillis EFRsource http://efrsource.com Position Paper

  2. Overview • Human system questions that impact acceptance and use of ICT. • The value of Ethnographic Futures Research (EFR) as a tool to address critical human system questions. • How EFR could be applied to improve the probability that mobile web technologies will contribute positively to social development.

  3. Human System Questions • Technology for what purpose? • Technology for who? • Technology for where? • Technology for when?

  4. Human System Questions • Technology for what purpose? • Technology for who? • Technology for where? • Technology for when? • communication with friends and family • business or income earning communications • entertainment • access to health information • participate in educational initiatives • surf for information on the web

  5. Human System Questions • Technology for what purpose? • Technology for who? • Technology for where? • Technology for when? • education level • degree of digital experience/literacy • income levels • access to complementary digital media • ethnicity • age • gender

  6. Human System Questions • Technology for what purpose? • Technology for who? • Technology for where? • Technology for when? • energy supply options • availability of communications infrastructure • languages spoken in the region • political or religious context

  7. Human System Questions • Technology for what purpose? • Technology for who? • Technology for where? • Technology for when? • preconditions to support expanded access to ICT • rate of adoption and speed of change • changes in the broader political, economic, environmental, technological, and socio-cultural contexts

  8. Origin of the EFR Method • Invented in 1976 by: Stanford Professor Robert B. Textor • Purpose:To systematically explore probable, possible and preferable futures through people’s presently held perceptions and visions.

  9. Complex questions with multiple inter-related socio-cultural, technological, political, economic, demographic, and environmental dimensions. Success depends upon making decisions today that are consistent with what is possible, probable and preferable in the context of the realities of tomorrow. Relevance of EFR to Mobile Web and Social Development

  10. Scenario-Based Analysis

  11. EFR Building Blocks • Confidential personal interviews with carefully selected cultural insiders. • For each interviewee, a individual summary of his/her Optimistic, Pessimistic and Most Probable scenarios of the future. • Composite summary reflecting a shared vision of a probable, possible and preferable future and decisions that make the composite scenario more probable.

  12. Modified/Supplementary EFR Approaches • Workshops involving multiple stakeholders • Web-mediated forums

  13. Project Design Options • Community/Region FocusExpanded use of distance education technologies by California Native American Tribes. • Country Level FocusAustria 2005: Projected sociocultural effects of the microelectronic revolution. • Target Population FocusVisions of the Iridium Era: Ninety-nine propositions about how global personal connectivity will impact ordinary peoples lives worldwide.

  14. Potential Contribution of EFR to Mobile Web and Social Development Challenge • Refined articulation of a consensus position on a possible, probable and preferable future that engages mobile web technologies for social development. • Anticipatory knowledge that provides a roadmap of opportunities and challenges leading to an identified desirable future.

  15. Questions and Comments?

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