Results of Grouping Exercise describing Research Design Requirements

Star –  Sound Guiding Principles

1.       Good hypothesis and theories to link outcomes

2.       Leaving research open-ended – not all hypothesis driven

3.       Generalizable

4.       Tools as products vs. evidence of learning

5.       Capture gender element

Clover – Who Learns

1.       Bottoms up, include all stakeholders

2.       Motivations for engaging different informants

3.       Engaged policy-makers from the outset

4.       Needs to inform policy – be useful to countries

Spiral –  Mixed Methods

1.       Case studies

2.       Luxury of time

3.       Long-range vision, how to learn from phase 1 to phase 2

4.       Intangible aspects – collecting stories

5.       Quantitative baseline (for magnitude)

6.       Good taxonomy classification informed by countries/stakeholders

7.       Hierarchy of units of analysis

8.       Include retrospective

9.       Data collection practices that are culturally appropriate

10.   Impact – what are we comparing against – attribute change to access points

11.   Benefits – to the community beyond the individual

12.   Research sequence

13.   Infomediaries as data collectors

14.   Direction of tech change and context of change (policy environment)

Rainbow – Inclusive Methodology

1.       Non-tech factors (e.g. infomediaries)

2.       Infomediaries variety; human face; role in data collection

3.       Non-user – are they benefitting anyway, why don’t they come

4.       Mobiles

5.       Capturing context beyond ICTs (books, babysitting)

6.       Perceptions of roles of venues – cool factors