We are still here...

Its been more than 1½ week since we last blogged and there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for this. We have become quite disillusioned with our master thesis and Thomas has decided to fulfill a childhood dream and take up a job at the counter at a fast food restaurant and I will pursuit a career as a professional football player :-)

Well, not quite true though :-) We are actually still very happy about how our master thesis are going but there just hasn't been much to blog about. It's as simple as that.

We have now read more than 60 articles mainly regarding ICT and development and their conjunctions but also theory about development in general and information systems. At this point we have started to categorize and keyword every article to easily match them together to form a theoretical web of references. This is still in the initial phase. Furthermore we have moved on to read about literacy and illiteracy and dichotomous assumptions in this field. This is important since we must understand the people in the context in which we intend to come up with a conceptual idea for ICT4D.

Lat Tuesday we spend the entire day with Jonas Toppenberg, a friend of ours from CBS, who is also writing his master thesis right now in a topic not so far from ours. He doesn't focus on ICT and development countries but on knowledge sharing in professional and non-professional networks. We had a good time talking about the summer vacation and discussing our master theses.

Unfortunately there is no news about our field study in India/Bhutan but our professor is due back from India this week and hopefully he will bring good news with him. We are still very optimistic about going.

Our current work cycle is still reading a lot of literature, writing summaries and discussing the theoretical and methodological approaches they propose. We are beginning to see a red line through a lot of out literature so our own theory is coming on strong. In our heads that is. It will be on paper later on :-)