Culture(s), information, and structure in large-scale development and humanitarian aid work

This thesis investigates the information culture of an international non-governmental organisation in Bangladesh. The study includes the perspectives of development and aid workers in the country by exploring their information ecosystem and mapping these onto the Information Culture Framework by Oliver & Foscarini (2020). The research finds that cultural norms and different configurations of large-scale development and aid work shape ideas about the creation, maintenance, evaluation and disposition of information. This study animates the cultural values, communication processes, and information systems through which information, physical materials, records, and workers coalesce to provide aid to different communities on a large scale.