Welcome to my fifth and final blog post in the series on gender, development, and information and communication technologies (ICTs). In the following post, topics from my previous blog posts are brought together and analysed with the help of academic literature and research to discuss how development practitioners can ensure …
In my first post, I incorporated Amartya Sen’s approach that development must be judged by its impact on people, their choices, capabilities and freedoms, making migration (people on the move) and how we communicate about it, an ideal subject to explore ICT as a vector of development. I have already …
From the inception of this blog, the group wanted to find a permeating theme that would hold our interests and subjects together. We decided to put people at the centre in our exploration of the relationship between ICT and development, and therefore agreed upon “ICT4 who?” as guiding question for …
In today’s data-driven world, even essential services are moving to the cloud at an exponential rate. Online services are increasingly offered as the default, or sometimes the only, option. While often welcomed as a positive, inclusive development, a dependence on online services and technology comes with many questions. In this …
Welcome to my fourth blog post in the series gender, development & ICTs. In the following post, I am concerned with the role technology can play in online and offline harassment and gender-based violence, and how ICT can be used as part of the solution. What role can ICTs play …
My two previous blog posts regarding ICT4D and Indigenous Peoples have had data collection as a main topic. In the case of deforestation defence, the local network is collecting data to monitor illegal logging in the protected Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary and further reports these findings to policy makers and …
In September I followed Growing Europe, a series of events on migrant entrepreneurship in Europe run each Thursday of the month. It was a collaborative effort of three projects that work to boost migrant entrepreneurship: European Migrant Entrepreneurship Network (EMEN), Network for Migrant Entrepreneurs to Scale Up and Grow (M-UP) …
Indigenous Navigator collects data from indigenous people for indigenous people. In this episode, program coordinator and advisor David Berger, talks to us about monitoring the realisation of Indigenous rights through data. Indigenous Navigator is an online set of tools that collects data by indigenous people for indigenous people to monitor …
Welcome to the third blog post in the series gender, development & ICTs. Looking through a gender and intersectional lens, I am concerned with questions of who designs ICTs and who creates the content online while highlighting some initiatives working for diversity and equality. Who shapes the content online? The …
Throughout the world, Indigenous communities face displacement from their territories for the sake of multinational corporations to extract natural resources. Such corporations are often backed-up by state military protection, to ensure national export quota is being fulfilled. But is this right? Is this even legal? Universal rights Globalisation and the …
