Don’t wait for a ‘tipping point’
Someday soon, a spark will ignite the climate change movement, predicts Michael Wilkinson. But until then, we need to focus on training young activists for the fight ahead.
Someday soon, a spark will ignite the climate change movement, predicts Michael Wilkinson. But until then, we need to focus on training young activists for the fight ahead.
In the last of our blog series on ICT4D and Gender, Michael Wilkinson looks at two articles in the most recent edition of Gender and Development, and examines the careful balance that must be struck between pushing for greater gender equality though ICTs, and the cultural and traditional values of each individual country.
I spoke to Jonathan Corpus Ong, co-author of “Local aid workers in the digital humanitarian project: between “second class citizens” and “entrepreneurial survivors”
What two typhoons in the Philippines tell us about the limitations of localisation, and the hidden hierarchies of disaster response.