Abstract The global digital divide threatens to exclude millions of people from the potential benefits of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), especially computers and the Internet. Many of these people live in rural, isolated and remote places of developing countries and are unlikely to be able to afford the cost […]
2011 • development • digital divide • ICTs • indigenous communities • Malaysia • poverty reduction • radio • rural • virtual museumInvisibility and the Ethics of Digitalisation: Designing So As Not To Hurt Others
Abstract The diversity of knowledge is crucial for finding credible and sustainable alternatives for living together. Yet, a preoccupation with content and connectivity obscures the role of information technology in making invisible different ways of knowing and other logics and experiences. How to deal with diversity and difference in information […]
2005 • design • indigenous / traditional knowledge • knowledge systems • open source • sustainability • TAMI