A blog about social media, datafication and development
Author: <span>Alicia Matallín</span>

Author: Alicia Matallín

Coding from the margins

In the last decades the globe has witnessed an acceleration of the globalization process thanks to ICTs and the existence of the Internet. Applied to our professional and personal spheres, both of them have facilitated social, cultural and economic exchange. Thus, the access to wider political perspectives, the easiness of …

A message for governors: guaranteeing digital equity in 5 “simple” steps

As a place for knowledge exchange, urban areas have gathered the greatest revolutions and innovations of recent history. The fact of being articulated through shared spaces has facilitated discussion and trade amongst both local and foreign individuals, eventually bringing development and prosperity to their populations. As a metaphor of these …