The Global Impact Study

Global Impact Study presents poster at IFLA

The Global Impact Study presented a poster, Open data and open tools: The Global Impact Study inventory and web application, at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) annual conference in Sweden. The theme of the conference — open access to knowledge — offered the perfect opportunity to highlight the project's achievements.

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A tool to count public access ICT venues in multiple countries

Although there have been isolated attempts at counting individual public access ICT venues in specific countries, there has not been a concerted effort to capture data for multiple venue types across multiple countries. Our first research goal has therefore been to carry out an inventory of all public access venues in the project countries — Bangladesh, Chile, Lithuania, Brazil, and the Philippines. This will enable us to quantify the public access ICT phenomenon and thus put our subsequent research findings in an appropriate context.

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Final inventory & taxonomy guidelines completed

The research team at the Center for Information & Society — working in collaboration with the Research Working Group and Country Research Teams — has finalized the guidelines for a public access inventory and taxonomy. The inventory will help quantify what is being studied and differentiate venues for survey design and data analysis. The taxonomy will allow for understanding of facility type without having to assign a nomenclature that may vary in definition across countries. It aims to provide data from which facilities can be mapped and selected for in-depth research.

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Global Impact Study to create inventory & taxonomy of public access centers

The Global Impact Study will create an inventory and taxonomy that will be useful for both our research and other efforts aimed at understanding the public access space. The inventory will be stored in a database and can be thought of as a directory to help support top-level documentation of facilities. In addition to serving as a useful tool in its own right, the inventory will help to facilitate rich analysis by making it possible to differentiate venues by type of establishment. The inventory will additionally serve as a frame from which to draw survey samples.

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