Digital Inclusion as Anti-Politics: a confession
This blog is based on my input to the ICT4D-North workshop at Salford University. I was asked, “What are some emerging risks or blind spots in global digital inclusion efforts that we should be paying more attention to?” One blind spot is how digital inclusion projects work as a form of ‘anti-politics’. As you know, James Ferguson argued that the development industry often functions as an “anti-politics machine”. He argued that the development industry oversimplifies complex socio-economic problems and offers…