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This paper inquires into the possibility of the development of ICT at the Bottom of the Pyramid. Its focus is on philosophically founded methods and languages applicable on a universal and exemplary basis. The methods are taken to be based on abduction and sweeping-in-processes and the languages are taken to be based on categorical imperatives of Kant and the discourse ethics of Habermas/Apel. These ‘taken to be’s’ are contrasted with Jacques Derrida’s ‘Deconstruction’. Paul Feyerabend’s ‘Against Method’ as well as complexity theory. The explicated monological/dialogical and formal / procedural methods and languages together with its counterparts are used to start a sweeping-in-process on ‘Social Informatics’.
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Ortiz, R.R., Herlau, H., Rasmussen, L.B. (2006). Philosophical Inquiry into Social Informatics — Methods and Uses of Language. In: Berleur, J., Nurminen, M.I., Impagliazzo, J. (eds) Social Informatics: An Information Society for all? In Remembrance of Rob Kling. HCC 2006. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, vol 223. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-37876-3_33
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