ICT4D’s great promises: Faith: innovative, game changing, can solve social, economic and infrastructural problems Hope: fosters development, improves livelihoods and justice Love: interpersonal mass medium , social networking relationships, connecting to loved ones Luck: offers more opportunities, choices, no one is left …
Facebook promises 10,000 new jobs in the EU and announces the ‘metaverse’, which ‘some people think could be the future of the internet,’ BBC reported two day ago. The announcement comes as Facebook deals with devastating reports and faces increased calls for …
A talk with Warren Lodge, owner of a small media enterprise in Cape Town, South Africa and an activist. Warren uses social media to support impoverished communities and generate funding. Furthermore, he is a cyclist and values the cycle not only as …
Talk with Hussein Alwaday on Big Data for Development For many years Hussein has been working with UNICEF in the Yemen. He is also a ComDev student. On a Saturday morning, he spoke about his work and how UNICEF uses Big Data …
Hands-on examples how big data can help innovation in development.
04.10.2021 Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has apologised via its social media account after millions of users faced 6 hours of disruption in using Facebook and its family of apps. Within minutes Facebook and Co were inaccessible for hours, taking out vital communications platforms …
Freedom of expression, Transparency and Accountability On SEPTEMBER 23, 2020, the press reports, that YouTube deleted accounts of the ‘Querdenker’ (Lateral Thinkers). With the onset of the pandemic ‘Querdenken’ had been spreading conspiracy myths about Covid-19 by accusing the media and politicians of lying about …
Part 02 of the learning curve about Big Data for dummys (like myself) How can algorithms, big data and AI cause biases and unfairness? Data reflects existing biases, unbalanced classes in training data, data that doesn’t capture the right value, data that …
Part 01 of the learning curve about Big Data for dummys (like myself) Strawberry Pop Tarts and Big Data – Why does it matter for development? In this blog, I want to explore my own learning in a simple, more fun and …
‘Targeting the Target Group’ is still very often used in development speech, when it comes to thinking about how we are communicating with people. Emerging psychological research has told us that something as simple as a single metaphor (eg. target) can have …
