Category: Power Dynamics

Marginalization or Inclusion? Mobile Application’s controversial aspects in developing countries

Introduction Today, there are more than 6.64 billion smartphone users, 650 million of whom reside in Africa. In 2021, 111.3 billion downloads from Google Play and 32.3 billion downloads from iOS were recorded. Thus, the question arises: can mobile phones and the services made available through them, such as telephone …

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About Inequity, technocolonialism etc.: potential consequences of relying on ICTs for development

Hello Dear Readers,

And here we are already at the beginning of my last individual post for this blog journey of ours.

I would like to have a discussion about my findings of today in the comment section below. Feel free to leave your impressions, opinions, experiences. As always, I appreciate every contribution.

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AI benefits everyone, everywhere… but is it really?

Hello everyone and welcome back! 

While researching for a new post for Re:Power Development I stumbled upon this interesting Ted Talk about AI and human bias by Kriti Sharma, an artificial intelligence technologist, business executive and humanitarian. She asked a very important, yet often forgotten question:

How many decisions have been made about you today by AI? And how many of them have been based on your gender, your race, or your background?

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