‘The idea of development stands like a ruin in the intellectual landscape.’ wrote Sachs et al. in 1993 (Sachs, 2019), and this is as true now as it was then. Sachs continues by reminding us how back then, all seventeen …
“We have more data and technology than ever in our daily lives and more social, political and economic inequality and injustice to go with it”. (Noble 2018, p.171) OUR DIGITAL WORLD, FRACTURED AND POLARISED There is ample evidence of …
What goes up must come down, and like every good story, our blog has come to an end. And even though a couple of blog posts are still to come, our Decolonline project is about to wrap up. Our stories …
In this article we will examine whether design theory and practice have a role in the international development sector, and especially in the creation of Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) projects in the Global South. We will present …
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have irrevocably transformed the ways in which people live, work, interact, and communicate with one another. A hallmark of the information technology age includes the fact that it is now simpler than ever to connect …
New media, online activism and digital development depend on information and communication technologies (ICTs) that are interconnected with power dynamics and structural inequalities in society. ”Technology mirrors realities in society” (O’Donnell and Sweetman, 2018, p.227), and is used in power …
In my last post I wrote about online activism as a tool for seeking social change. I wondered, among other questions, to what extent we recognise power relations in these virtual spheres and how we unconsciously perpetuate them. Always from …
In my previous post, I said I would talk about power politics and (de)colonization and how my initial awe at such an incredible humanitarian feat turned into disappointment with the official ‘development industry’ after experiencing it firsthand. So, here we …
Hello and welcome to my first post! Or should I call it a decolonization rant? Honestly, I have a problem with all these new ideologies sweeping across the West, or as Themrise Khan says, this ‘need to “decolonize” virtually everything …
In today’s post we would like to share an ongoing project that seeks to gather design projects from all over the world and create a digital archive. It is an online database of digital online cases that aims to challenge …
