| In ICT4D We’re Principled, But Are We Practiced Enough? – Your Weekend Long Reads By Steve Vosloo on February 17, 2018 Principles for Digital Development, we now have principles for many development sectors,and principles for cross-cutting themes, including principles for: DFID does development in a principled way and DAI is teaching digital principles to its non-techie staff, and there are principles for worker engagement supported by technology. best practices of ICT4D projects. It was based on the work of then research pioneer, Bridges.org, drawing on a range of projects from the early 2000s. 12 habits – many of which didn’t look that different from today’s principles. Do We Practice What We Preach? what we should do, and some work has been done on the how side, to help us move from principles to practice. But I think that we need to do more to unpack the why don’t we aspect. Can We Leapfrog: The Potential of Education Innovations to Rapidly Accelerate Progress. Brookings analysed almost 3,000 education innovations around the world (not all tech-based, just so you know) and found that: data-driven and share our practices. So what is going on here? - Do the project managers behind these interventions not know that they should do these things?
- Do they not have the capacity in their teams?
- Do they not want to because they believe it exposes their non-compliance with such principles?
- Or perhaps they feel data is their competitive edge and they should hide their practices?
Time for ‘Fess Festivals? Fail Festivals are an excellent way to share what we tried and what didn’t work. But what about ‘Fess Festivals, where we confess why we can’t or – shock horror – won’t follow certain principles. behavior change. If we’re to change our own behavior we need to understand why we do or don’t do things. Good Design is Honest 10 New Principles of Good Design (thanks Air-bel Center for the link). What is wonderfully affirming is that many of the “new” principles in the commercial space we have endorsed for years. user-centered design is participatory and that we should expose the important parts of digital solutions to our users. We believe in telling our users what we’ll do with their data. understand the existing ecosystem, be conscious of long-term consequences and design for sustainability. For us, these are not “new” principles. why we don’t always practice what we preach, honestly and openly. Only in this way will we really pursue a key new principle: good design is honest. In ICT4D We’re Principled, But Are We Practiced Enough? – Your Weekend Long Reads appeared first on ICTworks. | 
