- Title
- Living lab methodology as an approach to innovation in ICT4D: The Siyakhula Living Lab experience
- Creator
- Gumbo, Sibukelo, Thinyane, Hannah, Thinyane, Mamello, Terzoli, Alfredo, Hansen, Susan
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/431302
- Identifier
- vital:72762
- Identifier
- https://www.siyakhulall.com/sites/default/files/ISTAfrica_Paper_ref_18_doc_4809_0.pdf
- Description
- Underdevelopment and poverty represent key challenges faced by the modern world, which have attracted the attention of NGOs, civil society, government and multinationals. Various undertakings including the United Nations Millennium Development Goals articulation and the World Summit on Information Society highlight the global commitment towards addressing these problems. The solutions to these problems should be derived out of well-structured innovation systems that take into consideration the grassroot context and concerns. A number of in-novation models have been formulated and utilized effectively in differ-ent industries, and some of these have equally been used effectively in community development contexts. This paper elaborates on the Living Lab methodology and its application in ICT4D contexts, highlighting the effectiveness of this model towards integrating end-users within their problem solving effort. This is discussed through the backdrop of the Siyakhula Living Lab, an ICT4D intervention. The embedding environ-ment for this model, which enables key synergies with other stakehold-ers, is also discussed.
- Format
- 9 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Proceedings of the IST-Africa 2012 conference, Gumbo, S., Thinyane, H., Thinyane, M., Terzoli, A. and Hansen, S., 2012, May. Living lab methodology as an approach to innovation in ICT4D: The Siyakhula Living Lab experience. In Proceedings of the IST-Africa 2012 conference (Vol. 24, No. 2013, pp. 29-74), Proceedings of the IST-Africa 2012 conference volume 2012 number 1 29 38 2012 978-3-319-16886-9
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- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the IST Africa Conference Statement (http://www.ist-africa.org/home/default.asp?page=istafrica)
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