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Centre for Development Informatics
Understanding Development Project Implementation:An Actor-Network Perspective on Local-Global Interactions
Richard Heeks & Carolyne Stanforth
Centre for Development Informatics, IDPM
University of Manchester, UK
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/cdi
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Development Projects: Knowledge Gaps
• The ‘inner workings’ of development projects
• The connection to project trajectories
• Politics and power within projects
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Law & Callon: Local/Global Networks
• Global network: resource-providing
• Local network: project-implementing
• Project as OPP between local and global
Degree of attachment ofactors in global network
Degree of mobilisation oflocal network
actorsWEAK, DISAGGREGATING
PROJECT
High
High
Low
Low
SOLID, INDISPENSABLE
PROJECT
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The Sri Lanka PEMS Project
ADB
Senior MoF
Institute of Public
Finance
Consultants Line Ministry
staffState Accounts Dept staff
National Budget
Dept staffCIGAS/TAS
Global Network
Local Network
Project as OPP
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PEMS Project Trajectory
• Phase One: Initiation and Consultant Strategy
• Phase Two: Crisis and Redesign
• Phase Three: Delivery and Completion
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PEMS Project Network Analysis
High
Low
HighLow
F
BC
GD
E
Degree of attachment of actors in global
network
Degree of mobilisation of
local network actors
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Conclusions: ANT and Development Projects
• Insights into inner workings
• Trajectory is more than success/failure
• Trajectory as a function of networks and OPP
• “Power to” not “Power over”
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Conclusions: ANT and Practice
• Subjectivity of selection
• Flexible, improvised approach to projects
• Relational, political approach to projects
Richard Heeks & Carolyne Stanforth
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/cdi