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32: Online "Gold Farming": Developing Country Production for Virtual Economies (Richard Heeks)
The first systematic analysis of "gold farming": the production of virtual goods and services for players of online games, that employs hundreds of thousands in developing countries and earns hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Analyses from economic, sociological, business and developmental perspectives, and sets out an agenda for future research.
31: Deconstructing Community Participation in Telecentre Projects (Savita Bailur)
Critiques the assumed link between community participation and telecentre success; finding no hard evidence of a relation and a problematic understanding of the term "community". Asks that telecentre policy-makers and implementers treat this causality in more complex terms than at present.
30: Researching ICT-Based Enterprise in Developing Countries: Analytical Tools and Models (Richard Heeks)
Provides a guide for those researching ICT-based enterprises in developing countries. Offers a series of frameworks for analysis from basic classificatory models to those that can analyse competitive strategy, impact, context and the enterprise lifecycle. In each case, provides an explanation of basic concepts, and a sense of what research using the particular framework would offer.
