
Monitoring Movements in Development Aid
Recursive Partnerships and Infrastructures
MIT Press
Published on 30. August 2013
Book
Hardback
216 pages
978-0-262-01965-1 (ISBN)
Description
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 of designing and implementing technology but entails forging new platforms for action that are simultaneously imaginative and practical, conceptual and technical. After presenting an analytical platform that draws on science and technology studies and the anthropology of development, Jensen and Winthereik present an ethnography- based analysis of the mutually defining relationship between aid partnerships and infrastructures; the crucial role of users (both actual and envisioned) in aid information infrastructures; efforts to make aid information dynamic and accessible; existing monitoring activities of an environmental NGO; and national-level performance audits, which encompass concerns of both external control and organizational learning.Jensen and Winthereik argue that central to the emerging movement to monitor development aid is the blurring of means and ends: aid information infrastructures are both technological platforms for knowledge about aid and forms of aid and empowerment in their own right.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
5 figures; 5 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
481 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-01965-1 (9780262019651)
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Casper Bruun Jensen | Brit Ross Winthereik
Monitoring Movements in Development Aid
Recursive Partnerships and Infrastructures
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08/2013
MIT Press
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Persons
Casper Bruun Jensen and Brit Ross Winthereik are Associate Professors in the Technologies Practice Group at the IT University of Copenhagen.
Author
Associate ProfessorIT University of Copenhagen
Associate ProfessorIT University of Copenhagen