Communicating for Development
Experience from the urban environment
Much research on urban development is supply-led - generated by the interests of donors and researchers in the North rather than the needs of poor households in the growing cities of the South, Communicating for Development focuses attention on the most fundamental of questions about development: how can the lessons of good practice and innovation and the results of research benefit the poor? The book offers in-depth discussion about how the communication process works - or doesn't work. It questions and challenges: who are the stakeholders; what are the best vehicles for transferring knowledge; why are local networks and intermediaries so important; what can hinder the communication process; and how may these gaps and barriers be overcome? Moreover, the book challenges traditional participatory methods of relating to the needs of poor urban communities and proposes instead the application of new communication and knowledge management methods currently used in business management. The contributors examine communication from a variety of perspectives, offering critical analysis and new ideas in relation to communication methods.
Published: 2002
Pages: 296
eBook: 9781780441054
Paperback: 9781853395420
| Foreword | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| The Urban Management Series | |||
| Acknowledgements | |||
| Introduction | |||
| Catalina Gandelsonas | |||
| PART I Theoretical issues | |||
| 1. Communicating urban research knowledge in international development cooperation | |||
| Tony Lloyd-Jones | |||
| 2. Modelling demand in order to meet it: can the information and knowledge management systems of the urban poor be understood and strengthened? | |||
| Lucky Lowe | |||
| 3. The hi-tech gift economy | |||
| Richard Barbrook | |||
| 4. The role of communication in urban communities | |||
| Norma V. Madrid | |||
| 5. Facilitating information dissemination and exchange through formal and informal networking | |||
| Otto Ruskulis | |||
| 6. Cultural differences and legibility | |||
| Nabeel Hamdi with drawing and captions by Ripin Kalra | |||
| 7. Communicating desire | |||
| Robert Brown | |||
| 8. Barriers and gaps in the communication process | |||
| Catalina Gandelsonas with drawings by Bill Erickson | |||
| 9. Improving communication in Amazonia: examining environmental imagery of Amazonian indigenous life | |||
| Kathleen Richardson | |||
| 10. Making differences: cities, NGOs and the cultural politics of development discourse | |||
| Carl O’Coill | |||
| PART II Case studies | |||
| 11. Broadcast for change: a Hands On approach to the delivery of empowering information to a global audience | |||
| Janet Boston | |||
| 12. National and regional Internet-based research networks: lessons from the UK and Central America | |||
| Harry Smith and Paul Jenkins | |||
| 13. Electronic conferencing: the learning curve | |||
| Mansoor Ali and Darren Saywell | |||
| 14. Putting over the message: a programme in Pakistan to build capacity among industrialists for pollution abatement | |||
| Rizwan Hameed and Jeremy Raemaekers | |||
| 15. Keeping ideas alive: communicating building for safety in Bangladesh | |||
| Iftekhar Ahmed and Matthew Carter | |||
| 16. Communication in HIV/AIDS prevention: a case study from Vietnam | |||
| Toyoko Kodama and Le Thi Minh Chau | |||
| 17. Knowledge transfer in a democratic context | |||
| Pachampet Sundaram | |||
| 18. Conclusions | |||
| Catalina Gandelsonas | |||
| List of contributors | |||
| References | |||
| Notes | |||
| Index |
Catalina Gandelsonas Catalina Gandelsonas is a Senior Research Coordinator at Max Lock Centre and teaches BA and MA urban design courses at the School of the Built Environment, University of Westminster. As a professional architect,planner and urban designer she has worked as a consultant for a variety of local authorities in the USA and Spain.
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