Ingredients to avoid: lessons learned about data for development

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…

Blending Curiosity and Discussion to Explore Digital Development

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…

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