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ICT for Development (ICT4D)
A seminar series gathering leading scholars and practitioners to reflect on the influence of new communication technologies on development processes. Organised by the Oxford Internet Institu...
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17 episodesAfrica’s Information Revolution: Rhetoric and Reality
Over the past decade there has been a phenomenal growth in mobile phone and internet usage in Africa which has attracted substantial media a...
Dying for an iPhone: The Hidden Struggle of China’s Workers
An in-depth study of the most powerful electronics contractor and the lives of its 1.4 million workers. During 2010, 18 workers attempted su...
Ethical Treatment of Data in New Digital Landscapes - bringing development practitioners and academics together
How can NGOs like Oxfam come together with academics and practitioners alike to tackle emerging privacy and security challenges when it come...
The (so far) grassroots success story of Farmerline, a social mobile tech enterprise for African farmers
Alloysius Attah discusses some of Farmerline's success factors, including its locally adapted technological solutions and strong local outre...
ICT, Civic Education and Civil Society Capacity Building in Iran
Since Tavaana's launch in 2010, the e-learning institute has safely educated thousands of Iranians about democracy and human rights. Since T...
What Hopes for ICT for Development?
Tim Unwin focuses on current work at the CTO, where his own personal contributions focus especially on the use of ICTs by people with disabi...
Thoughts Towards a History of ICT4D - And Its Future Role
David Souter uses the history and development of ICT4D as a framework to critique ICT4D approaches and consider the relevance of ICTs and IC...
How best to communicate with communities affected by disaster? Case Studies from Typhoon Haiyan
This seminar will investigate how different technologies were used by CDAC Network Members in the immediate response to Typhoon Haiyan, focu...
The Internet in a post-PRISM world
Dan McQuillan examines the Internet in a post-PRISM world, and asks if its power to tackle global poverty will be lost. This seminar will ex...
Crowdsourcing and Development of Activity Systems: the Case of Emergency Response
Gregory Asmolov suggests applying the notion of activity systems and zones of proximal development, as conceptualized in Cultural-Historical...
The Post-2015 Development Agenda: Implications for ICT4D Research
Richard Heeks explores new post-2015 development agenda and its implications for ICT4D (information and communication technologies for devel...
The Information Society Agenda: Prospects and Problems
Discussion of dominant approaches by intergovernmental agencies to information society policy and the prospects for introducing critical per...
ICTs, Innovation and Regulation in the Somali Territories
A seminar exploring technology and regulation in the Somali territories of the Horn of Africa. Despite weak or non-existent government insti...
Humanitarian campaigns in social media: network architectures and Kony 2012 as a polymedia event
An assessment of the optimism surrounding the opportunities that social media offer for humanitarian action, drawing on analysis of the phen...
Disjunctures and Connections: Case Studies of How Techno-politics Make and Cut Networks
In a development context, the ways in which new media objects (eg ICTs) are defined in relation to other objects, people and institutions ma...
Development 2.0 and beyond: Challenges for ICT4D in 2013
Dr Thompson addresses some of the opportunities and contradictions presented by ICT4D and considers some emerging ways in which ICT4D resear...