Five4ThePeople

Five women writing about new media, activism and development
Five4ThePeople

Five4ThePeople

New Media in Development: the Other is speaking; we are Here.

The infiltration of the digital in all areas of life has brought an added dimension of observation for development studies and practice. Quick advancements in information communication technology (ICT) raise many new questions on both the possibilities and the risks digitalisation brings to the implementation of development policies and projects. …

Blogging – A Beginner’s Reflections

Aina, Nina, Rozarina, Sorina and I put together this blog in six weeks. As reflected in the theme that brough us together – i.e. “New Media, Social Movements and Development” – Five4ThePeople is a blog of mostly amateurs exploring the link between new media, development and any types of activism …

New media and technology: A reflection to blogging as part of ICT4D

New media has been described as anything that is delivered digitally to you such as emails, websites, mobiles and any internet-related form of communication[1]. However looking at this description in relation to activism and development; it is lacking some depth and concept.  Some definitions of new media focus exclusively upon …

Reflecting on New Media, Activism, and Technology

As I conclude my blogging journey, it has become gradually more apparent that blogging about development often does not remain a merely virtual process, but instead inspires real-life connections with deep, lasting impacts (Denskus & Papan, 2013). This final blog post will tie together the topics I have explored in …

On Ketty Nivyabandi and her atypical journey as an “active citizen”

Image above: Ketty Nivyabandi kneels down in exasperation during the 13 May 2015 women-only led protests. Photo by © Joseph Ndayisenga From leader of the first ever women-only street protests in Bujumbura, Burundi to Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada, anglophone branch In my first blog post a few weeks ago, a …

New media and technology: Can it help to close the gender imbalance in social studies?

At our recent group blog presentations, I cannot help but noticed that many of the blogs written were taking a lens from a female-feminist perspective, in other word most of my peers in the C4D study are women.  I am of course writing this from a traditional slightly bias view …

Waking up (in) the development sector – time to centre anti-racist efforts!

It is a long overdue reckoning with race that is currently taking place globally and across (hopefully) all sectors as a direct consequence not only of the #BlackLivesMatter protest but also as a response to locally embedded and deeply engrained oppressive structures.

Resisting ‘development’ – Activism through Facebook

Improvements to communication have opened up new possibilities for development interventions. Just as radio functioned as a powerful tool for dispersing information across vast areas, innovation within ICT and new media have brought about new pathways, ideas and designs that impact development work. As Tony Roberts outlines digitalization has affected/impacted …