If we had two friends who wished to establish a healthy relationship together, we might give them some basic advice: listen to one another, respect your differences, try to see things from the other person’s perspective, be patient, keep each other informed about important things, include your partner in decision-making, […]
2010 • development • development communication • modernity • participatory • social changeBook Review: Encountering Development by Arturo Escobar
Escobar’s Encountering Development evolves around the thesis that “the discourse and strategy of development produced its opposite: massive underdevelopment and impoverishment, untold exploitation and oppression.” He approaches this through a discursive analysis of the components and relationships of what he calls “the three axes that define development”: its forms of […]
1994 • book review • development • development discourse • discursive analysis • encountering development • modernityA Value Sensitive Design Approach to Indigenous Knowledge Management Systems
Indigenous cultures across the planet are disappearing. In 2007, Wade Davis, a Harvard-trained ethnobotanist, presented at the TED conference on the (subject of endangered cultures). He said, “When each of you in this room were born, there were 6,000 languages spoken on the planet . . . and of those […]
2008 • database • design • endangered language • ICTs • indigenous / traditional knowledge • knowledge management • modernity • oral tradition • western cultureICT4D: Seeking the spaces inbetween
Introduction There is a story from the Turkish tradition about Nasruddin Hodja who at the time was serving as the kadi of Aksehir. Two men came to visit seeking resolution in a dispute. After listening to the plaintiff, Hodja said, “You are right!” He then listened to the defendant. After […]
2009 • challenges • colonization / colonialism • development • ICT4D • indigenous / traditional knowledge • modernity • western knowledge