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

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dc.creator Katomero, Jesper
dc.creator Georgiadou, Yola
dc.creator Lungo, Juma
dc.creator Hoppe, Robert
dc.date 2020-03-20T07:25:52Z
dc.date 2020-03-20T07:25:52Z
dc.date 2017
dc.date.accessioned 2022-10-20T12:01:01Z
dc.date.available 2022-10-20T12:01:01Z
dc.identifier Katomero, 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.
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi6090266
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/2249
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/2249
dc.description Full Text Article. Also available at: https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/6/9/266
dc.description Public 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.
dc.language en
dc.publisher MDPI
dc.subject Rural water governance
dc.subject Water points
dc.subject Information Communication Technologies
dc.subject Administrative technologies
dc.subject ICT
dc.subject Public water
dc.subject Information infrastructure
dc.title Tensions in rural water governance: The elusive functioning of rural water points in Tanzania
dc.type Article


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