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 …
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 …
The move towards online education is rapidly accelerating, but can everyone keep step with the changes? The contrast in educational content and learning techniques for the indigenous Australians may slow down the process. Australia’s Closing the Gap National Agreement was tabled in the Australian Parliament in 2009 with the objective …
UNESCO’s recent report predicts that 11 million girls will not return on school benches after the pandemic. On the International Day of the Girl Child, we may ask: Will ICT access effectively address the inequalities in education? As I discussed in my previous post, access to education has become an ever …
In my coming posts, I will be exploring how different development organisations utilise information and communication technologies (ICTs). To achieve their ambitious targets, public actors and NGOs tend to favor partnerships with private companies. By looking at a number of different fields, I will also attempt to bring in conversation …
