Purposeful building of social capital and the adoption of essential tools and technologies in impoverished communities in the Philippines

• Main Author: LIM, Chon Phung
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Social capital; Social network; Improvised communities; Philippines; Asian Studies; Technology and Innovation
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll_all/46; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1047&context=etd_coll_all
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Despite its popularity and a wide range of applications, social capital is a contested concept. There is also no agreement on whether social capital responds well to external interventions. Many scholars found no or, at most, mixed impacts that social capital can be purposefully developed. However,...