ICT Development for Mobile Communities
Allison Hailey Hahn · 2021
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been used and developed by mobile communities. Many rural communities around the world were latecomers to ICT development. However, when they were able to access new and emerging technologies, they often leaped over older technological tools and systems. This chapter introduces these technologies, their emergence, and the international development programs that funded their expansion into the most rural locations. While many readers from settled and Western communities use the same technologies, this chapter introduces some of the novel adaptations that herding communities have made to utilize ICTs while on the move. In this chapter, I explore the development and instillation of these emergent technologies and resulting communicative networks, which have the potential to change herding communities’ relations with the state, access to banking, and use of image testimony.