Resilient ICT4D: Building and Sustaining our Community in Pandemic Times

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.09712v1
• Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2021 13:10:10 GMT
• Title: Resilient ICT4D: Building and Sustaining our Community in Pandemic Times
• Authors: Silvia Masiero and Petter Nielsen
• Abstract summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionally affected vulnerable people and deepening pre-existing inequalities. A global development paradigm has emerged in response to the global nature of the crisis, infusing new meaning in the spirit of "making a better world" with ICTs. Such a new meaning contextualises our research in the landscape of the first pandemic of the datafied society.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, disproportionally affecting vulnerable people and deepening pre-existing inequalities (Dreze, 2020; Qureshi, 2021), have interested the very same "development" processes that the IFIP Working Group 9.4 on the Implications of Information and Digital Technologies for Development has dealt with over time. A global development paradigm (Oldekop et al., 2020) has emerged in response to the global nature of the crisis, infusing new meaning in the spirit of "making a better world" with ICTs (Walsham, 2012) that always have characterised ICT4D research. Such a new meaning contextualises our research in the landscape of the first pandemic of the datafied society (Milan & Trere, 2020), coming to terms with the silencing of narratives from the margins within the pandemic (Milan et al., 2021) - in Qureshi's (2021) words, a "pandemics within the pandemic" producing new socio-economic inequities in a state of global emergency.

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