Crowdsourcing ICTD Best Practices

Aaron Ciaghi; Adolfo Villafiorita

e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries. Third International ICST Conference, AFRICOMM 2011, Zanzibar, Tanzania, November 23-24, 2011, Revised Selected Papers

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Crowdsourcing ICTD Best Practices

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-29093-0_16,
    author={Aaron Ciaghi and Adolfo Villafiorita},
    title={Crowdsourcing ICTD Best Practices},
    proceedings={e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries. Third International ICST Conference, AFRICOMM 2011, Zanzibar, Tanzania, November 23-24, 2011, Revised Selected Papers},
    proceedings_a={AFRICOMM},
    year={2012},
    month={5},
    keywords={ICT for Development software engineering software development process crowdsourcing},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-642-29093-0_16}
}

Aaron Ciaghi
Adolfo Villafiorita
Year: 2012
Crowdsourcing ICTD Best Practices
AFRICOMM
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29093-0_16

Aaron Ciaghi¹^,*, Adolfo Villafiorita¹^,*

1: Fondazione Bruno Kessler

*Contact email: ciaghi@fbk.eu, adolfo.villafiorita@fbk.eu

Abstract

A large number of projects in ICT for development include software development to a certain degree. A review of the literature highlights how most of these projects ultimately fail to be sustainable. In this paper, we expose our views on the need for a more structured approach to software development in ICTD and we present our plan to collect best practices from software project managers through a crowdsourcing web portal. This will provide input to a broader study that aims at adapting existing software development processes to the ICTD context.

Keywords: ICT for Development software engineering software development process crowdsourcing

Published: 2012-05-30

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29093-0_16