Tensions in rural water governance: The elusive functioning of rural water points in Tanzania

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dc.contributor.authorKatomero, Jesper
dc.contributor.authorGeorgiadou, Yola
dc.contributor.authorLungo, Juma
dc.contributor.authorHoppe, Robert
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-20T07:25:52Z
dc.date.available2020-03-20T07:25:52Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.descriptionFull Text Article. Also available at: https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/6/9/266en_US
dc.description.abstractPublic water services are still failing rural Tanzanians. Emboldened by advances in information communication technologies, the Ministry of Water has been developing computing, financial and administrative technologies to update and visualize the status of rural water points. This amalgam of technologies marks the emergence of an information infrastructure for rural water governance. The information infrastructure will enable the ministry to “see” the functionality status of all rural water points and to plan and budget for their repair and maintenance. In this paper, we examine three administrative technologies, which aim to standardize the functionality status of water points, and to prescribe how the information flows within the government hierarchy, and who is a legitimate recipient of this information. We analyze qualitative data, collected over a period of four years, in the framework of an interdisciplinary research program, funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research—Science for Global Development (NWO-Wotro). In contrast to other researchers who study how information infrastructure evolves over time, we study what infrastructure evolution reveals about water governance. Our analysis of the practices of participants in rural water governance reveals tensions between formal and informal processes, which affect rural water services negatively.en_US
dc.identifier.citationKatomero, J., Georgiadou, Y., Lungo, J., & Hoppe, R. (2017). Tensions in rural water governance: The elusive functioning of rural water points in Tanzania. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-information, 6(9), 266.en_US
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi6090266
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/2249
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.subjectRural water governanceen_US
dc.subjectWater pointsen_US
dc.subjectInformation Communication Technologiesen_US
dc.subjectAdministrative technologiesen_US
dc.subjectICTen_US
dc.subjectPublic wateren_US
dc.subjectInformation infrastructureen_US
dc.titleTensions in rural water governance: The elusive functioning of rural water points in Tanzaniaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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