In my previous four blog posts I spoke about Clicktivism, White Saviourism, the importance of intersectionality, and finally I offered some Dos and Don’ts when it comes to communicating social change. These were mostly lighthearted posts about deeply problematic issues, all, in my opinion, connected by what Nigerian author Chimananda …
As I discussed in my previous post, the COVID-19 crisis has undoubtedly triggered a further disruption in the technology sector. From AI, to sterilizing robots, to rapid developments of new technology being reappropriated in ways we have never seen before, we have seen organisations and businesses turn to technology during …
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 …
I recently watched a Buzzfeed video about a woman in Texas, USA, who ‘accidentally became a meme.’ Known as ‘Kombucha Girl’, Brittany Broski recorded herself tasting Kombucha for the first time. Her face seems to physically recoil at the taste. But as she considers it for a moment, her expression …
Feeling like I was doing a lot of pointing-out-all-the-ways-you-can-go-wrong in Communication for Development (and in life itself), so I decided to put together a (certainly non-exhaustive) list of dos and don’ts for those of us wanting to cultivate our empathy and be better at Communicating for Social Change. DO: First …
The people of Lebanon have been taking to the streets for over a year now to protest for a change in the confessional, sectarian system of government. They echo the deep-felt experience of having no influence on the decisions that affect their lives, described by Thomas Tufte in his work, …
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 …
As fate would have it, I was born in Madrid, the capital of Spain, more than thirty years ago. “Mine” was one of the first and more bloody-minded countries to develop and implement the system that legitimizes the invasion and expropriation of other peoples’ lands and resources. The system that …
