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 …
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 …
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) …
The Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN), is an alliance of Indigenous communities mainly composed of the Kuy people. Their aim is to protect the Prey Lang Forest, which covers approximately 500,000 ha in four provinces of northern Cambodia. To help their work with monitoring and reporting the ongoing and widespread …
In writing my first post in this series, I explained that ICT seems to be referenced in migration policy frameworks almost exclusively for its role in data collection, mostly associated with border management. You may – likely influenced by your political persuasions and where you live – see this as …
Welcome to my first blog post on the theme of gender, development, and information and communication technologies (ICTs). In the coming posts, I will focus on how ICT4D is used to pursue gender equality in the world while touching upon current topics such as COVID-19, online harassment, and decolonisation. ICT …
Why are migration, development and technology important to consider through the ComDev lens and how are they present in global frameworks?
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 …
