DIGITAL-FOR-DEVELOPMENT: HOW GENERATIVITY OF DIGITAL PLATFORMS MIGHT SUPPORT COMMUNITY-BASED APPLICATIONS

Resumo

Understanding how individuals and communities can adapt and recombine digital artifacts to solve local challenges is crucial to the current research on digital technologies to countries' development. With the expansion of digital technologies in the global south, digital transformation is becoming the backbone of international development, and it has a vital role in a wide range of societal challenges. Thus, digital transformation has overcome corporate backrooms and created a generative socio-technical system. In this context, digital innovation platforms afford individuals to adapt and recombine digital capacities in a generative process. The generativity of digital platforms is an emerging and yet little understanding phenomenon in Information System literature. However, scholars had paid limited attention to digital generativity's wide-ranging effect, especially to promote developing in the global south. In this research project, I endeavor to approach this gap, elucidating the research question: How do digital platforms' generativity support the emergence of community-based applications that address local problems? For this purpose, I will conduct an embedded case study where people within Brazilian marginalized urban communities developed platform-based business or mobile applications to address local social challenges