Digital Development

"Digital citizenship, put simply, is the use of mobile & internet technologies to participate in civic & political life". 👩‍💻 The free-to-download book documents and discusses examples from Namibia, Zambia, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Kenya.

The World’s Last Internet Cafes buff.ly/3rC4AuM

Narrative Review on Open Access Institutional Repositories and Knowledge Sharing in South Africa buff.ly/3ryjr9J

Chang’an: 3D Printing Cyberpunk Town on Pearl River Delta. It emerged from its unique labor development practices that leverage the advanced digital fabrication capacity, open learning content on the Internet, and collaborative business models. buff.ly/3JVmHSZ

Who owns farmers’ data? - The key to rebalancing power lies in promoting digital inclusion and farmer-centric data governance. buff.ly/3XLRSFW

Digital Citizenship in Africa: With contributions from scholars across the continent the book illustrates how citizens have been using VPNs, encryption, and privacy-protecting browsers to resist limits on their rights to privacy and political speech. buff.ly/44gA9ce

(PDF) Ghana’s blockchain scene on WhatsApp: A space for convergence and divergence buff.ly/3pyzu6G

Seeding change: How Indigenous villages in Brazil built Nhandeflix, their own streaming platform. An Indigenous-centred content platform that works on their own intranet. buff.ly/449yjtj

Porto Digital Is the Quixotic Tech Hub That Actually Worked: nearly a quarter century after it was launched, Porto Digital has turned Recife into a bona fide center for Brazil’s emerging tech and creative economy sectors buff.ly/3rjX9bm

Ten Facts About Digital Technology Adoption in Ghana. Fact 6: Mobile money adoption rates exhibit significant spatial disparities. A significant rural-urban gap in mobile money usage exists: 72% in urban vs 47% in rural areas. buff.ly/3XEEbbV

How is the Indonesian development sector using generative AI? @thekopernik "taking the pulse" mapping identified 10 use cases (as well as risks) v1.kopernik.info/documents/docu…

Nigerian engineering students are increasingly turning to Indian YouTubers for supplementary academic support. buff.ly/46g0PuX

5000 digital public services for citizens in Kenya. Wish we had a global comparison how many digital government services each country offers.

How TikTok influencers exploit ethnic divisions in Ethiopia. TikTok does not publicly disclose how many staff members or content moderators it employs for reviewing content in these languages. buff.ly/3CI6vQT

More CCTV, more crime: India’s most-surveilled cities are the least safe - The lack of regulation around the use and the storage of data collected through CCTVs poses a serious threat to citizens and CCTV does not lead to lower crime rates. buff.ly/3NFN29R

"Smart City": Cameroon launches video surveillance with live facial recognition in largest city. Already, 3k CCTV cameras have been installed. "With the analytical processing of data by artificial intelligence, crowds will no longer be anonymous" buff.ly/46cSSGV

Digitalization and digital skills gaps in Africa: An empirical profile buff.ly/3NdxDvP

An algorithm intended to reduce poverty might disqualify people in need. According to a new report by the Human Rights Watch, an algorithmic welfare distribution system for Jordan, funded by the World Bank, unfairly and inaccurately quantifies poverty. buff.ly/43USTx9

Who is shutting down the internet in 2023? A mid-year update buff.ly/43LrU7x

Study: E-filing sheds a new light on Tajikistan's taxation landscape. While the process has increased efficiency, it's also revealed disparities in tax contributions and systemic corruption previously obscured by manual processes. buff.ly/42OiJ53