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Digital Discourses: An Essay on ICT in Development
[from http://www.sdnp.undp.org/observatory/ ]
Digital Discourses: An Essay on ICT in Development
24 March 2003
How is this New Technology ICT being understood by the different
people involved? How is the information brought about by ICT being
understood by these people? What are (some of) the social and
cultural implications of implementing ICT and/or building
telecentres? It is my thesis that not only the tool itself, the
technology, the machines, are understood differently in different
social and cultural contexts, but that also the information gathered
via the new technology, and here I think especially about webpages,
is exposed to various (re- and/or mis-) interpretations. From that
follows the question of who gains what from using ICT. What do the
different people involved get out of it? The tools and the
information in itself are neutral, but can be, and always are,
perceived through lenses of anything but neutrality. (PDF) (Source:
Communications Initiative)
Full Story http://makeashorterlink.com/?B5E933FE3 which refers to
http://www.ulandslaere.au.dk/Opgavestof/2001/EndeligeOpgaver_2001/PDF_
SteffenDalsgaard.pdf
