South African, Rural ICT Implementation: a critical retrospective application of Latour's due process model

<body> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td align="center"> This page requires frames. <a href="http://dl.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/viewArticle/115">Click here</a> for the non-frames version. <p>Non-frames version <a href="http://dl.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/viewArticle/115">available</a>.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <h1>South African, Rural ICT Implementation: a critical retrospective application of Latour's due process model</h1> <h2><i>Jo Rhodes</i></h2> <h3>Australasian Journal of Information Systems</h3> <h4>Abstract</h4> <div>The potential developmental role of ICTs can pressurise governments to engage in ‘catch up’ and ‘leapfrog’. Consequently, analysis of the accompanying socio- political dimensions and risks can be, disastrously, neglected. This paper examines a specific technology implementation – a South African government sponsored telecentre- using Latour’s Due Process model, an analytical tool grounded in Actor-Network Theory, where technology implementation is viewed as a symmetrical treatment of technology and society within a single collective. It is used here, retrospectively, to make sense of why the telecentre both failed to institutionalise within a successful actor-network, and, contributed to the destabilization and partial destruction of a successfully established women’s development organisation.</div> </body>