international development – The Digital Humanitarian

Dani Hoo

Algorythmic colonization, is it all bad?

By Dani March 9, 2020 March 19, 2020 0

Although big data is a term that is thrown around within academia, business and NGO work, not everyone understands what it really is and more importantly, what it does. Big data is used to describe a large volume of structured and unstructured data that is so large that is difficult …

Dani Hoo

Globalization, social media, and its impact on International Development

By Dani March 2, 2020 March 19, 2020 1

Globalization is known as the development of an increasing integrated economy marked by free trade and the flow of capital. The author Pieterse suggests however that globalization and its breakdown has changed significantly, what we know as development now is not what was previously, and further to this, that the …