“[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 …
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 …
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 …
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can be listened to in the video below: Allow me to hone into the three issues I proposed in my previous post: those of outdated ways of doing aid, reforming/dismantling existing power structures, and the limits to techno-optimism.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 …
“What is morality police?” I wondered as I first read about the unprecedented death of Mahsa Amini back in September. Her life was lost at only 22 during a family visit to Tehran after her arrest by the morality police- Islamic religious police which detains violators of the Iranian …
The time of reckoning has come The “project approach” – which relies on temporary, discrete, linear initiatives to close gaps defined by technicians and politicians – of humanitarian interventions is not future-ready. Built on the economic and technological achievements of the 1950s that brought us the Marshall Plan and the …
Welcome to ‘Perplexed Periphery’, a blog that will provide you with information on the ICT4D (Information and Communications Technologies for Development), aid work, and communicating development. This is intended as a space for reflection on topics such as ICT4D, its role in the decolonisation of the development project, and its …
