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The use of crowdsourced mapping in human rights

What is—or ought—to be the role of technology in supporting human rights, and to what extent is technology a human right? Recent years have seen the evolution of a panoply of digital tools that allow users to bridge space and spread ideas, democratizing information that can have a critical impact in the social and political spheres.

ICTs and Children - is there a need for an ICT4C(hildren) field?

Tons of discussions, panels, and conferences are happening around the broader topic of ICT4D. But Development as a general topic cannot be used and considered as one generic field. Education, migration, health, media, government, infrastructures and so on, are all part of it and themselves very different field. The question though remains: is that possible to develop generic guidelines for the use of ICTs in all those fields, or would it be better to develop specific guidelines for each one of them?

Media Map Project - Visualizing Data about Media Development

The Media Map Project began as a multifaceted two-year research collaboration between Internews and The World Bank Institute, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The pilot phase took place between 2010 and early 2012.

Games, fundraising and epic meanings

Half the Sky Movement: The Game (HSM Game) falls in to the ‘games for change’ category. It an adventure game and has two aims – to raise awareness about issues faced by girls and women across the world, and to raise funds that help empower them. This blog entry will explore some challenges and issues related to designing a game, and problematize the design models associated with embedded fundraising features for players.

Promoting and teaching digital literacy

What has made the internet and web what it is today?  In the earliest browsers, there was an option to reveal the HTML source code associated with the webpage that the user was viewing.

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Blogs

  • The use of crowdsourced mapping in human rights

    [Guest Blog Post by Daphne Kolios. Daphne is a recent graduate of Tufts University with a degree in International Relations. Throughout her time as an undergraduate, she worked as a news editor on the Tufts Daily and studied abroad for a year in Paris, France. She speaks, to varying levels of fluency, French, Greek, and Arabic. She is interested in the influence ICTs can have on international politics, regime transitions, and crises, as well as their relationship in promoting and protecting human rights.

Tools

  • Ubuntu

    Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning 'humanity to others'. It also means 'I am what I am because of who we all are'. The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers. 

    Ubuntu is part social and part economic: free software, available free of charge to everybody on the same terms, and funded through a portfolio of services provided by Canonical.

Research

Welcome

Initiatives

Crowdglobe: an open research platform aimed at informing the future use of crowdsourcing mapping methodologies by highlighting deployments and research in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) field.

Harnessing Design for Media Development: exploring methods of Design Research to gain a better understanding of how information and communications are impacting the livelihoods of marginalized communities

Media Map: an initiative to explore, interact with, and analyze data on media development, bringing together comparable data on how media, technology, and communication intersect with traditional development statistics.