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. …
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 …
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.
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 …
Last week, two of the #Five4thePeople, Nina and Danie sat down (virtually!) for a conversation on the NonHuman Nonsense, a large-scope initiative by Leo Fidjeland’s and Linnea Våglund and their project Planetary Personhood in particular. The result of their exchange is summarized in what follows.
This blog entry explores the politics of archiving and how new media is opening up new forms of cataloguing information, amplifying decolonized discourse building.
In my early 20’s I ended up being drawn to a methodology called design thinking, starting in university in Finland where I was surrounded by plenty of buzzwordy places like a “Design Factory”, accelerators, social innovation bootcamps and more. Design thinking is an iterative process and set of tools to …
How do stock image databases impact development work? The power of new media is tackling longstanding issues of representation in development.
