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Global Justice 4.0: The Impacts of Digitalisation on the Global South
Deep Insights
Berlin: Brot für die Welt (2019), 74 pp.
"This publication discusses the extent to which digital technology can help tackle poverty and social inequality. Does it increase or restrict the opportunities for social and economic participation open to disadvantaged people? We analyse the history of e-commerce in the light of this question. We
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Sustainable Digitalization: Guidelines for a Digitalization We Need for the Future We Want
Berlin: German NGO Forum on Environment and Development (2019), 8 pp.
"If digitalization truly is an element of great social change, it has to be sustainable, fair, and relevant to all people and working for the common good. Without proper discussions on benefits or risk, without democratic control and regulations, technologies have the potential to lead to more and n
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China, Africa, and the Future of the Internet
Deep Insights
London: Zed Books (2019), xi, 192 pp.
"Featuring a wealth of interviews with a variety of actors – from Chinese and African journalists in Chinese media to Chinese workers for major telecommunication companies – this highly original book demonstrates how China is both contributing to the 'Africa rising' narrative while exploiting th
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Steering AI and Advanced ICTs for Knowledge Societies: A Rights, Openness, Access, and Multi-Stakeholder Perspective
Paris: UNESCO (2019), 197 pp.
"This report recognizes artificial intelligence (AI) as an opportunity to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), through its contribution to building inclusive knowledge societies. Based on UNESCO’s Internet Universality ROAM framework agreed by UNESCO’s Member States i
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Was Bits und Bäume verbindet: Digitalisierung nachhaltig gestalten
München: oekom Verlag (2019), 144 pp.
"Knapp 2.000 Menschen zog die ‹Bits & Bäume› im November 2018 an die Technische Universität Berlin. Dieser Zuspruch verdeutlicht die Lücke, die wir mit unserer Veranstaltung gefüllt haben: Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit als zwei wesentliche aktuelle Herausforderungen unserer Gesellscha
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Digital Innovation Made in Africa for Sustainable and Inclusive Development
Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2018), 48 pp.
"Innovative Entrepreneurship is one of the key drivers behind Africa’s digital transformation. For many young people, entrepreneurship is often the best way to achieve sustainable livelihoods. Innovative entrepreneurs know their local markets and understand the social context. This gives them a co
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Experiences of ICT Use in Shared, Public Access Settings in Philippine Slums
Development in Practice, volume 28, issue 3 (2018), pp. 358-373
"This article examines how privacy is understood, lived, and negotiated by youth users of information and communication technology (ICT) in slum communities in the Philippines. In the context of shared and public access arrangements prevalent in many low-income communities in the Global South, the a
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Social Tech Ecosystems in Sub-Saharan Africa
Deep Insights
Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (M-ITI) (2018), 86 pp.
"Around the world diverse actors are working to develop technology that directly improves social conditions. This report refers to these types of technology as ‘social tech’. Examples of social tech include anti-corruption systems for citizens to report bribes; communications platforms for refug
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The Digital Nonprofit Skills Assessment
NetHope (2018), 25 pp.
"This Digital Nonprofit Skills (“DNS”) Assessment is the second white paper in a series of benchmarks established by NetHope’s Center for the Digital Nonprofit that provide insight into the opportunities and challenges for transforming the nonprofit sector. The first white paper, the Digital N
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Instrumentalising the Digital: Adolescents’ Engagement with ICTs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Development in Practice, volume 28, issue 3 (2018), pp. 432-443
"In development agendas regarding children in low-income communities, both older and emerging media are typically ignored or assumed to have beneficial powers that will redress social and gender inequality. This article builds on a recent rapid evidence review on adolescents’ digital media use and
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Reflecting the Past, Shaping the Future: Making AI Work for International Development
USAID (2018), 97 pp.
"This document aims to inform and empower those who may have limited technical experience as they navigate an emerging ML/AI landscape in developing countries. Donors, implementers, and other development partners should expect to come away with a basic grasp of common ML techniques and the problems
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More Than Just Bitcoin: The Potential of Blockchain Technology, Using the Example of Latin America
KAS International Reports, issue 1 (2018), pp. 64-77
"Blockchain tehcnology (BT) can make a significant contribution to the future development of Latin America. It provides a robust alternative to weak state authorities in the fight for democratically legitimised laws and standards that have only been applied to a limited extent, or not at all. BT cou
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Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D)
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xviii, 410 pp.
"The first three chapters set out the foundations of ICT4D: the core relation between ICTs and development; the underlying components needed for ICT4D to work; and best practice in implementing ICT4D. Five chapters then analyse key development goals: economic growth, poverty eradication, social deve
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Le numérique et le développement des Suds
Communication, Technologie et Développement, issue 5 (2018), pp. 8-145
Creating Mobile Health Solutions for Behaviour Change: A Study of Eight Services in the MNutrition Initiative Portfolio
London: GSMA; Altai Consulting (2018), 50 pp.
"The GSMA mHealth programme, under the mNutrition Initiative funded by UK aid (the UK Department for International Development, DFID), has been working with mobile network operators (MNOs) and other mobile and health sector stakeholders to support the launch and scale of mobile health (mHealth) valu
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Donor Organizations and the Principles for Digital Development: A Landscape Assessment and Gap Analysis
London: Jigsaw Consult (2018), 39 pp.
"This study engages with a comprehensive spectrum of stakeholders within the development and aid sectors around the role of digital, and the ideals that guide that role. The Principles for Digital Development, stewarded by Digital Impact Alliance, and the community of endorsers present a key forum f
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Empowerment as Development: An Outline of an Analytical Concept for the Study of ICTs in the Global South
"It is a certainty that the proliferation of ICTs (mobile phones in particular) has opened up a range of possibilities and new avenues for individuals, aid agencies, and NGOs. However, overviews of communication supposedly for development reveal a field based on economic understandings of developmen
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