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New Horizons in Digital Anthropology: Innovation for Understanding Humanity

Paris: UNESCO;LiiV Center (2023), 59 pp.

Contains 6 figures, glossary p. 58

ISBN 978-92-3-100627-2

CC BY-SA

"This publication, developed in partnership between UNESCO and the LiiV Center, maps the landscape of innovation in digital anthropology as an approach to ensure a better understanding of how human communities and societies interact and are shaped by technologies and, knowing this, how policies can be rendered more ethical and inclusive. Briefly, the research found that innovation in digital anthropology is in a state of transition and is perceived differently across sectors and regions. In the span of just a couple of decades, innovation has come from doing anthropology digitally and doing the digital anthropologically, two movements that give life to space where creation happens within the blurry lines among disciplines, fuelled by increasingly fluid movement between academia and the private sector. The innovation space in-between these trends seems to be where the most exciting and forward-thinking digital innovations are occurring, like novel blended algorithms or computational and techno-anthropology, and opens opportunities to educate a new breed of digitally and anthropologically skilled professionals." (Executive summary)
Building the global report, 16
Landscape, 18
Themes, 26
Regional nuances, 33
Forces of change, 42
Barriers, 46
Foresight, 50
Strategic recommendations, 55
Conclusion, 57