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to keep a dynamic work environment functional.
Info-mobilisation is a form of interactive development that involves adaptive
learning, community learning, the alignment of social and technological
systems, participative values, and social and stakeholder groups.
Additionally, info mobilization focuses and expounds on three important
approaches namely:
1) The design, delivery and utilisation of community information systems.
i.e. Information requirements of communities
2) The optimal impacts of ICTs in rural communities
3) The importance of social, political and economic factors, and varying
modes of communication during implementation of ICT projects
The chapter confirms that ICTs that are assigned to communities that have
not been Info-mobilized are destined to deliver sub-optimal outcomes. lnfo­
mobilisation uses various participatory mechanisms for community
engagement, including: household surveys, community focus groups, group
dynamics, user committees, training, and orientation sessions. Through
these techniques, the community gets involved in learning about its
information needs and how to satisfy them in an iterative process of action,
evaluation and learning.
The next chapter (five) deals with Gender, ICTs and development
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