Requirements Elicitation for the Technology Conception of a Community Information System for the Indigenous Microenterprise: A Contextual Multi-Analysis Approach on Business and Community Requirements of Batik Making

The Malaysian batik industry was revived by the government intervention to emphasize batik as a cultural identity and also to improve the livelihood of batik producers where the majority operates as indigenous microenterprises. However, the batik making tasks and the management of batik microenterprises are currently not supported by the use of ICT. To facilitate batik microenterprises ICT adoption the authors proposed the development of ICT-based information systems that emphasize the cultural context of batik production. In their work they argued that the facilitation of batik microenterprises ICT adoption can happen by developing an ICT-based information system that emphasize the cultural context of batik production. They argued that a technology conception needs to consider the ecological aspect of batik production that comprises of resources, technology and geography to understand barriers and opportunities of technology. To support their argument , they conducted a batik microenterprise business requirements elicitation to formulate the technology conception for an ICT-based information system.