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Maarten van den Berg | September 19, 2025‘Digital (Alter)Natives with a cause?’ is a collection of four books with essays published by the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India, and the Dutch NGO Hivos. The books come in a beautifully designed cassette and are accompanied b…
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Mark Holmström | July 01, 2025What is it like to grow up male and middle class in a city where everyone sees a career in information technology (IT) as the road to success? Nicholas Nisbett, a social anthropologist, hung out at a cybercafé in Bangalore popular with young men a…
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Anna Lauridsen | June 22, 2025The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) provide clear objectives and a timeline for the world to achieve greater equality and a higher quality of life. The 2015 deadline for the MDGs is fast approaching and debates are beginning to flare up about…
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Ellen Lammers | October 07, 2025It is often assumed that information and communication technologies (ICTs) can contribute to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), but the evidence for that conclusion is weak. No one would dispute that knowledge equals power. But the…
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