Technology stewardship in the face of a crisis. An interview with Dina Mehta

Auteurs-es

  • Beth Kanter
  • Nancy White

Mots-clés :

knowledge management, technology stewardship, community of practice, Tsunami, disaster relief

Résumé

In an interview with ethnographer and blogger Dina Mehta, the role of technology steward is explored in the context of voluntary online disaster relief work. The choice and deployment of software, volunteer organization, mutual support and distributed leadership are explored in the interview.

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Publié-e

2007-07-30

Numéro

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2007): Stewarding technologies for collaboration, community building and knowledge sharing in development

Rubrique

Interviews

Licence

The copyright of the articles published in this journal remains the property of the authors. For liability reasons, the title belongs to the Foundation for the Support of the Knowledge Management for Development Journal. The journal is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License. This journal is currently an open access journal as it has a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. From the BOAI definition [1] of "open access", we support the rights of users to "read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles." However, some of the content (2009-2012) is only available on the Taylor and Francis website. Within the next few months, this issue too will become available on the OJS. [1] http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#openaccess

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