Technology is so embedded in most people’s daily lives that in some cases, e.g. urban settings, it is no longer a choice whether or not to use it, as one would need to make a huge effort to be able to cope in society without it. Looking at the internet, …
In my last blog post for this project I would like to talk about an issue very close to my heart: waste management. I cannot understand how our society got used to produce so much waste and how so much of it still ending up in landfill, when so much …
My dependency to my smartphone is probably growing at the same rate as the number of new apps becoming available every day. Apart from the usual communication tasks, I use it to find the best way to reach a destination, to make notes, for online banking, to book a yoga …
I have been reflecting on how much ICT infrastructure defines the ‘development’ of a place when compared with other basic infrastructure. After reading the blog post ‘The Role of ICT in poverty eradication’ written by my colleague Masud, I was inspired to write this post sharing my outsider’s perceptions of …
A couple of months ago I came across the internet celebrity Li Ziqi. Li lives in the countryside in southwest China with her grandmother and posts films of her rural life. With such description no one could imagine that her YouTube channel attracted over 70m followers, mostly in China …
