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 …
Having looked first at migration, development and ICT at global policy level, and then at an example of Big Data for refugee forecasting to improve humanitarian response, in this, my third post of the series, I intended to explore how technology is used along migration journeys. More specifically, I wanted …
Welcome! My blog post series will follow the theme of Indigenous Peoples development and social change in relation to information and communication technologies (ICTs), as I perceive it has had an immense impact of this particular marginalised group. For example, during the spring of 2020, the importance of new media …
