ICT and Development How can we activate Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and New Media (NM) as an instrument for positive, inclusive, and sustainable change? To explore this question; the following paragraph briefly elaborates on Heeks’s (2017) invitation to deconstruct ICT 4 Development (ICT4D) terms. A deconstruction that is preliminary …
V is for Visibility; we ponder who is invisible on internet mediums Does a poor single mother who works 12 hours a day to provide for her family, takes care of house chores, makes a meal, follows up with her children’s schoolwork, looks after her retired father who has minimum retiring …
life needs truth “Life needs truth. Truth is essential.” With this forgotten life necessity, The New York Times closes its video, promising of truthful independent journalistic practice. I borrow this statement to start with, not to link it exclusively to the New York Times; it is as a comforting promise …
The following lines will explore how algorithms affect how police views and deals with, black communities. Are AI and mathematical algorithms being used by police departments in an ethical way that promotes equality, or are they being misused and are eventually rooting racism? The discussion will be in light of …
With the speeding pace of globalization and the echoing fourth industrial revolution, the “Global Village,” as described by media theorist Marshall McLuhan, seems to have become the “Global Room”. Now, one would hope that this virtual shrinking of the world through the medium of the internet would reflect how …
