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 …
The Covid-19 pandemic has completely reshaped the way we do our jobs, how we stay in touch with our family and friends, how we learn, shop, bank and a multitude of other activities that we might not traditionally have done online. For the 54% of the global population with access to …
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 …
