“[T]he unevenness between economic cores and peripheries is rarely leveled by ICTs.” Mark Graham 1 How can we make sense of the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in/for Development, from the perspective of the people living in margins? Our blog, Perplexed Periphery, sought to articulate, from as many …
My first two blog posts focused on issues of communication, particularly how subjects such as extreme poverty and conflicts are framed within the media and what wider consequences that can lead to. I also tried to highlight the decreasing development aid around the world and the significance of that for …
How do civil society actors, pushed to live in the margins of capitalism, appropriate and use digital technologies to advance their own strategic goals? This essay intends to advance an answer to this question by exploring some of the material and geographic – therefore socioecological – dimensions of information and …
So far in our decolonization journey here on Perplexed Periphery, I have talk about the defining the need for a decolonization of aid practices and the digital marketing of voluntourism and the consequences on local communities. To add to our previous discussions, I’d like to suggest a reflection on eColonialism …
In my first blog post, I hinted at the potential ICT has to invite for more individual and community-based participation and the possibility for empowerment. In my second post, I suggested that participatory action can accumulate and multiply through ICT, turning into a movement for social change. Through my last …
The last decades have been marked by an unprecedented technological explosion, where the digitalisation of society has increased prosperity, and global population is living on average longer and under better conditions. In the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic that caused significant disruptions to livelihoods, persistent inequalities that were already on …
A version of this post can be listened to in the video below: Allow me to hone into the three issues I proposed in my previous post: those of outdated ways of doing aid, reforming/dismantling existing power structures, and the limits to techno-optimism. These issues have spun off from …
My last blog post discussed the lack of attention that the Yemeni conflict is getting by the public at large and western media in particular. It also highlighted the extreme poverty within the country, the decreasing funding by the international community and the devastating consequences that leads to. Today’s post, …
Technology is fostering individuality, leveraging democratic participation, and it has expanded women’s voices around the world, supporting global change movements and activism campaigns1. A paradigmatic illustration of this is the #BringBackOurGirls social networks’ movement around Boko Haram’s kidnapping of schoolgirls in Nigeria back in 20142 (read more about it here …
The conversation is not new. And it is not news that the origin of the Development sector is entangled to Eurocentric ideals of the future. These ideals are not only shaping Development practice, theory but also the public’s expectation and knowledge of what is out there. Just like that, even …
