Design for Sustainability: Countering the Drivers of Unsustainability in Development Projects
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چکیده
The vast majority of development projects, and in particular Information and Communications Technology for Development (ICT4D) projects, fail to reach their objectives and only a small number of projects effect change that lasts (Heeks, 2002;Toyama, 2010). The sustainability of a project is an important but ill-defined concept. Sustainability has been defined from various perspectives, but many of these definitions remain at the concept level, and are not useful in terms of pointing projects towards sustainability.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- J. Community Informatics
دوره 11 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015