TY - CHAP T1 - Authenticating deeds / organizing society: Considerations for Blockchain-based Land Registries T2 - DeVries W. (ed.). Responsible and Smart Land Management Interventions: An African Context Y1 - 2020 A1 - Miscione, G A1 - Richter, C A1 - Ziolkowski, R ED - DeVries, W AB - This chapter steps back from specific empirical cases and discusses alternative theoretical lenses that can be used to study if and how blockchain-based registries in Africa will be affecting organizations and society. Those lenses are: Neoinstitutionalism, Structuration theory, and Actor-Network theory. Each of them is adopted to outline aspects of blockchain first, then to highlight specificities in Ghana, finally to suggest research lines. This plurality of theoretical lenses encourages to foster a more nuanced understanding of unconventional contexts of technology in use, thus to derive better recommendations than those based on reductionist frameworks, which often overlook specificities of developing countries. JF - DeVries W. (ed.). Responsible and Smart Land Management Interventions: An African Context PB - Routledge ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Authenticating Deeds/Organizing Society T2 - Responsible and Smart Land Management Interventions Y1 - 2020 A1 - Miscione, G A1 - Richter, C A1 - Ziolkowski, R JF - Responsible and Smart Land Management Interventions PB - CRC Press ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Enlisting SDI for urban planning in India: Local practices in the case of slum declaration T2 - Spatial Data Infrastructures in Context: North and South Y1 - 2011 A1 - Richter, C A1 - Miscione, G A1 - De’, R A1 - Pfeffer, K AB - © 2011 by Taylor and Francis Group, LLC. Initiatives to develop spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) have been taken up since the early 1990s in many countries around the world, including India. However, the spirit of global SDI convergence that dominated the 2009 GSDI conference is more of an aim for the future than an empirically grounded phenomenon. Whether or how “the walls of SDI are coming down” (Van Loenen, Besemer, and Zevenbergen 2009, pp. 1-2) remains to be seen. It is also too soon to conclude that these initiatives automatically and unequivocally lead to wider societal benefits. JF - Spatial Data Infrastructures in Context: North and South SN - 9781138077669 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Conceptualizing people in SDI literature: Implications for SDI research and development. JF - Int. J. Spatial Data Infrastructures Res. Y1 - 2010 A1 - Richter, C A1 - Miscione, G A1 - Georgiadou, Y VL - 5 ER - TY - CONF T1 - Design of an unbounded ethnography of spatial information infrastructure development Y1 - 2008 A1 - Richter, C A1 - Miscione, G A1 - Pfeffer, K A1 - Georgiadou, Y ER -