IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/titdxx/v29y2023i2-3p205-227.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

How do localized socio-economic platform ecosystems emerge?: a mobile platform to bring the market to villagers in Himalayan forests

Author

Listed:
  • Gaurav Dixit

Abstract

Disasters like forest fires have become a persistent challenge in Himalayan regions due to highly inflammable Pine leaves. Solutions like producing bio-briquettes require involvement of local villagers, which depends on creating socio-economic and social entrepreneurship opportunities. Our research addresses these challenges by developing and evaluating governance interventions to connect villagers with local market through a mobile app platform and shape an ecosystem. We conduct an interpretive case study based on literature on digital platform ecosystems and multi-sided platforms. We use activity theory to analyze case data on implementation of governance interventions and behavior of ecosystem actors towards the challenge of producing and selling pine briquettes through the platform. Our findings suggest that characteristic features of a platform ecosystem running in a socio-economic setting differ substantially from commercial ecosystems. Our research could be one of the first to contribute to digital platforms for development in a local socioeconomic context.

Suggested Citation

  • Gaurav Dixit, 2023. "How do localized socio-economic platform ecosystems emerge?: a mobile platform to bring the market to villagers in Himalayan forests," Information Technology for Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(2-3), pages 205-227, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:titdxx:v:29:y:2023:i:2-3:p:205-227
    DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2022.2131702
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/02681102.2022.2131702
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/02681102.2022.2131702?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:titdxx:v:29:y:2023:i:2-3:p:205-227. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/titd20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.