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Indigenizing Emerging Technologies

Cultural Survival Quarterly, volume 48, issue 1 (2024), pp. 8-25

"Addressing a rarely-examined intersection, the magazine features eight articles highlighting the use of technology in Indigenous communities. These include AI’s role in exacerbating violence and inequality, the use of AI in tracking salmon migration, Indigenous representation in video games, and ... more

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Ûiiti: A treatment for ecological experience in mobile network culture

Greenman Muleh Mbillo Dani Ploeger

Journal of Environmental Media, volume 3, issue 1 (2022), pp. 177-180

"Ûiiti (‘the treatment’) is an Android phone app created by artist duo Greenman Muleh Mbillo, in Kenya, and Dani Ploeger, in the Netherlands. The work is a high-tech iteration of the 'nzevu', a ritual instrument of the Kenyan Akamba tribe. It transforms a smartphone from a networking technology ... more

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94 Free or Low-Cost Tools and Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good (2022)

"Provided you set aside the time to explore and experiment, your nonprofit can use the free or low-cost tools and resources listed below to significantly improve your digital marketing and fundraising campaigns." (https://www.nptechforgood.com)

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Don’t Build It: A Guide for Practitioners in Civic Tech - Tech for Development

Luke Jordan

Grassroot;MIT Governance Lab (2021), 38 pp.

"This guide is for teams or managers involved in considering or building “civic technology”, i.e., technology that helps people engage government more effectively. It is the distillation of my four years spent building Grassroot, a civic tech platform in South Africa. The guide is focused on the ... more

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The rise of digital wellbeing: A qualitative content analysis of choice architectures within digital wellbeing applications

Tara Lynch

University of Boras, Bachelor Thesis (2021), 43 pp.

"This study examines choice architectures within contemporary digital wellbeing applications to better understand their design and structure. Specifically, it investigates how design influences decision-making processes and self-regulatory systems. Empirical data was gathered from six digital wellbe ... more

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Low-Data Mobile Apps: Latest Innovation Frontier for Community Radio Stations in Rwanda

Emmanuel Munyarukumbuzi

3CMedia: Journal of Community, Citizen's and Third Sector Media and Communication, issue 10 (2020), pp. 7-23

"This paper examines the motivation of audiences to participate in the programming of community radio; the readiness of community radio stations’ management and their audiences to embrace mobile applications; whether Rwanda is a conducive environment for the deployment of mobile applications in co ... more

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Tech Trendscouting Toolkit: Or How to Become a Tech Trendscout for Digital Innovation with Social Impact in Africa

Asmaa Guedira, Geraldine de Bastion, Tolu Agunbiade, Yatan Blumenthal-Vargas

Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2019), 44 pp.

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Aufbruch im Silicon Wadi

Claudia Mende

welt-sichten, issue 12 (2019), pp. 61-63

"In der jordanischen Hauptstadt Amman blühen digitale Start-ups. Die hohe Arbeitslosigkeit lindert das kaum. Doch junge Leute bringen damit neue Ideen in Jordaniens Geschäftswelt." (Seite 61)

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Impact Report 2017-2019: Make-IT in Africa. Successfully Promoting Tech Entrepreneurship and the Innovation Ecosystems of Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria and Tunisia

Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2019), 71 pp.

"Make-IT started as a "laboratory" for new types of partnerships between development organisations, business, finance and entrepreneurs. After 2 years of implementation experience, we can proudly say that we have successfully combined the strengths of the public and private sectors to promote digita ... more

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Mobile-First Journalism: Producing News for Social and Interactive Media

Steve Hill, Paul Bradshaw

London; New York: Routledge (2019), xiv, 223 pp.

Combining theory and practice, Mobile-First Journalism examines how audiences view, share and engage with journalism on internet-connected devices and through social media platforms. The book examines the interlinked relationship between mobile technology, social media and apps, covering the entire ... more

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Digital Innovation Made in Africa for Sustainable and Inclusive Development, Volume 2

Stephanie Wiedner, Jonas Schug

Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2018), 48 pp.

"With the second volume in the series Digital Innovation Made in Africa, we want to raise awareness of the enormous potential of young entrepreneurs in Africa. In this edition, the Tech Entrepreneurship Initiative Make-IT in Africa presents innovative initiatives and projects that have attracted att ... more

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Digital Innovation Made in Africa for Sustainable and Inclusive Development

Jan Schwaab, Stephanie Wiedner, Kathleen Ziemann

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 ... more

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Monopólios digitais: Concentração e diversidade na Internet

Jonas Valente, Marina Pita

São Paulo: Intervozes (2018), 174 pp.

"Em termo de variedade de conteúdos e formatos, há uma hegemonia quase absoluta dos modelos de negócio calcados no lucro e do entretenimento. Este tipo de conteúdo é o foco de 84% dos sites mais acessados. Apenas a Wikipedia surge como grande produtor e difusor de conteúdo, mas ainda assim de ... more

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Let's Talk Digital. Case Studies: Using Digital Technologies in the Context of Governance and Conflict

Julia Manske, Andreas Pawelke

Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2018), 45 pp.

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Youth Mobile 2018 Report: Empowering the Next Generation

Paris: UNESCO (2018), 16 pp.

"The UNESCO YouthMobile Initiative leverages the widespread availability of mobile phones to empower youth through digital skills training. Young people are introduced to coding as both a resource to solve local issues and a tool to develop complex learning skills. Through YouthMobile training, stud ... more

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Digitalizing Islamic Lectures: Islamic Apps and Religious Engagement in Contemporary Indonesia

Moch Fakhruroji

Contemporary Islam, volume 13 (2018), pp. 201-215

"Contemporary mobile phone technology has brought millions of apps into the pockets of users, including a wide variety oriented towards religious concerns. Such apps appear to be creating new forms of religious engagement, a process that is particularly visible within Indonesia. This paper will exam ... more

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Youth Mobile: Teaching Young People to Create Mobile Apps for Sustainable Development

Paris: UNESCO (2018), 10 pp.

"Mobile technology has become a tool for youth empowerment, activism and socio-economic progress. In developing countries especially, the number of mobile Internet connections is increasing exponentially, and smartphones are often the only computer available. Within this context, YouthMobile enables ... more

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Les civic tech en Afrique: Citoyens et technologies pour dynamiser la démocratie. Premier bilan au Bénin, au Kenya, au Sénégal et en Tunisie

Philippe Couve, Edem Gbetoglo et al.

CFI (2018), 62, 25 pp.

"Dans ces quatre pays africains (Bénin, Kenya, Sénégal, Tunisie) où l’étude a été réalisée, il apparaît qu’à l’origine des civic tech se trouvent le plus souvent des citoyens et des citoyennes engagés, désireux de traduire leur frustration, et parfois leur colère, devant le déca ... lage observé entre l’affirmation officielle de principes démocratiques et une réalité de terrain assez éloignée des discours. Pour la grande majorité d’entre eux, les initiateurs de ces actions ont suivi des parcours universitaires exigeants et connu des expériences à l’étranger. Les hommes sont très largement majoritaires, à l’exception du Kenya où les femmes sont presque aussi nombreuses que les hommes. Elles considèrent toutefois qu’elles ne se trouvent pas sur un pied d’égalité, notamment lorsqu’il s’agit pour elles de prendre la parole publiquement ou de se lancer dans l’entrepreneuriat. Les difficultés d’une mobilisation à grande échelle Les jeunes adultes (20-25 ans) qui s’investissent dans les civic tech s’engagent généralement pour exprimer une forme d’irritation face aux dérives liées à la corruption ou au manque de prise en compte de l’avis des citoyens dans les décisions politiques. De l’avis général des « doyens » (activistes des civic tech ayant plus de 6 ou 7 ans d’expérience) que nous avons interrogés, la jeune génération est très prometteuse, car mieux formée sur les nouvelles technologies et très mobilisée sur les objectifs de bonne gouvernance et de participation citoyenne. En termes d’audience et de développement, l’étude montre que, dans les quatre pays concernés, les acteurs des civic tech rencontrent le plus souvent des difficultés à mobiliser de larges communautés de citoyens. Ils peinent à faire entendre leur message dans des pays où l’illettrisme au sens littéral et au sens numérique sont importants. Il en résulte des actions qui mobilisent essentiellement un petit nombre de citoyens, à la fois très engagés et très motivés. En général, le système d’organisation des initiatives civic tech varie selon les projets : le degré de structuration est plus ou moins formel et dépend surtout de l’ancienneté des initiatives, de l’ampleur des financements collectés et, in fine, du nombre de participants actifs impliqués à temps plein. Lorsqu’une forme de professionnalisation de l’action est évoquée, beaucoup de nos interlocuteurs mentionnent la difficulté à recruter et à fidéliser des profils combinant sensibilité aux questions de redevabilité et de transparence, savoir-faire en matière de gestion de projet, capacités technologiques et maîtrise des techniques de communication, notamment sur les réseaux sociaux." (Résumé analytique) more

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Beyond the Hype: Mobile Phones and the Web to Improve Agricultural Value Chains
Inspiring Practice

Paul Mundy, Benjamin Kwasi Addom, Krishan Bheenick

Wageningen: Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2017), 16 pp.

"CTA’s ICT4Ag project (2014–15) enabled seven organisations in Africa and the Caribbean to develop, test and promote information services for smallscale farmers and fishers, traders and lobbying groups. Key recommendations: Understanding users’ needs requires intensive interaction with potenti ... more

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Going to Scale with ICTs for Agriculture

Elizabeth Willmott-Harrop

Wageningen: Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2017), 31 pp.

Beyond the Hype: Mobile Phones and the Web to Improve Agricultural Value Chains Inspiring Practice

Beyond the Hype: Mobile Phones and the Web to Improve Agricultural Value Chains
Inspiring Practice