Embedded Networked Sensing

Abstract

Abstract This chapter examines the global implications of e-Research for developing countries and regions by focusing on knowledge production, drawing on survey research and case studies in India, Ghana, Kenya, Chile, and the Philippines. It assesses the impact of the Internet on scientific collaboration and research productivity in those countries, and argues that the reaction to information and communication technologies (ICTs) will be determined by how researchers in specific localized contexts and with specific identities reconfigure the nature and dynamics of social interaction in the network society in general and of knowledge production in particular. The chapter contends that new ICTs, particularly the Internet, have the potential to reagentize science in developing areas more effectively than past development initiatives (for example, capacity building, technical assistance).