Making Digital Inclusive: Blending Local and Global

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1919

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This paper explores collaborative practices as robust strategies for dealing with the grand challenge of producing ICT statistics in developing countries. We present the case of CETIC.br, responsible for measuring the information society in Brazil, as an instrumental case to illustrate how collaborative practices deal with the complex, uncertain and evaluative process of producing ICT statistics. This process is taken as a grand challenge, since it involves a diversified number of actors, it is in constant evolution and it involves different perceptions of value. We aim to identify how CETIC.br brings heterogeneous actors to interact, produce collaborative advantage and promote evolutionary learning. From a theoretical perspective, we contribute with the literature of grand challenges with theories coming from the field of collaborative practices. To the practie, we intend to contribute to agencies producing statistics in developing economies, that can learn with these collaborative practices for dealing with their grand challenges.

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Orchestrating Collaborative Practices to Envision the Information Society: The Case of CETIC.br

This paper explores collaborative practices as robust strategies for dealing with the grand challenge of producing ICT statistics in developing countries. We present the case of CETIC.br, responsible for measuring the information society in Brazil, as an instrumental case to illustrate how collaborative practices deal with the complex, uncertain and evaluative process of producing ICT statistics. This process is taken as a grand challenge, since it involves a diversified number of actors, it is in constant evolution and it involves different perceptions of value. We aim to identify how CETIC.br brings heterogeneous actors to interact, produce collaborative advantage and promote evolutionary learning. From a theoretical perspective, we contribute with the literature of grand challenges with theories coming from the field of collaborative practices. To the practie, we intend to contribute to agencies producing statistics in developing economies, that can learn with these collaborative practices for dealing with their grand challenges.

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