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Friday, 21 October, 2022 - 01:31
This is the core of my contribution to a Nethope 2022 seminar at the invitation of Oxfam US. |
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Tackling Toxic Masculinity in Technology Workplaces |
Toxic masculinity and everyday sexism create a hostile environment for women in technology workplaces and in online spaces. In an increasingly digital world the male-domination of technology design, software production, and digital content is a serious problem that demands urgent remedy.
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Top Ten Books on Digital Development |
Following a popular Twitter Thread I wrote on this subject recently, I thought it might be useful to have these all in one place.
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Digital Development: what's in a name? |
Richard Heeks recently asked whether the emerging relationship between digital technology and international development should be referred to as "Digital Development" or "Digital-for-Development". I use these two terms to refer to different things.
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Ten Rules of Technology |
Nothing is more practical than rules to guide thinking. In this post I share the ten rules I use to think about technology and society. Personally I use them as tools to filter the hype that surrounds technology and to get to the critical questions of who benefits and loses, as well as what needs to be done to secure a more equitable society. |
Podcast with Nanjala Nyabola |
In this episode of of the IDS "Between The Lines", podcast I spoke to Kenyan journalist and political analyst Nanjala Nyabola, about her book ‘Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya’. The book focuses on how social media has impacted Kenyan politics both positively and negatively, and the consequences for democracy. |
Digital Imperialism & How We Tackle It |
I recently ran a session on Digital Development here at IDS for staff from two bilateral donors. |
Class Divisions in Technology Access |
Mobile internet use in the Philippines is growing rapidly, but so are associated digital inequalities. |
Digital Technology Excludes |
This month I have been in the Philippines researching participatory technology initiatives designed to include Filipino citizens in participatory governance programmes.
Perversely I came back more concerned about the ways that digital technologies exclude the most marginalised. In this post I explain the reasons why.
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ICT4D Conference Calendar 2018 |
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Decent Work in a Digital World |
The last few weeks have been super busy here in the Digital and Technology team at IDS. I'm preparing for fieldwork in the Philippines at the same time as we are juggling a raft of exciting new research proposals at various stages of development. Last week we also ran the inagural Digital Development Summit at London's South Bank Centre. |
ICT4D Conferences 2017 |
A calendar of ICT4D conferences in 2017. |
Let a Thousand ICT4D Blogs Bloom |
On his Facebook page last week Richard Heeks, from the Centre for Development Informatics at Manchester University, was lamenting the fact that many ICT4D blogs have become inactive. |
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