Efficiency, automation, integration, innovation: information and communication technologies (ICT) promise all of these and more. More specifically, the field of data for development (D4D) “ascribe[s] power and agency to data as a development actor” (Cinnamon, 2020, p. 215). How can data be a development actor? Cinnamon (2020) explains that in…
It is not just the growing developments in big data and increased amounts of open data that have grown society’s interest in digital development or ICT4D. Nor is it only the benefits or positive impacts of these changes in the post-covid era of globalisation. The curiosity also lies in the…
Working for a development research firm, data is a word I can’t escape. But what’s really interesting to me is not the data itself; it’s what it can mean when it becomes knowledge. If the circumstances are right, data can even lead to impact. I want to understand what ingredients…
The Data Kitchen is a group of development professionals curious about the good, the bad, and the ugly of data for development. All five of us are enrolled in the Masters of Communication for Development at Malmö University, Sweden. We’re learning that new technology and applications for data are often…
