Sara Vannini NewMinE (New Media in Education) Lab

...international

...marginalized social groups

EU enlightenment Linear progress Economical, social and political welfare

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Europe-centred No sufficient consideration of earlier traditions,and of moral and ethical dimensions Relies mainly on economic indicators

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and

Access Health Education Participation/Governance Entrepreneurship Agriculture Culture Emergencies

ITU establishes a commission to examine the worldwide

telecommunication development

infoDev (Banca Mondiale), International Institute for Commnication and Development

(IICD), Global Digital Divide Initiative (World Economic Forum), World Development Report (Banca

Mondiale), Acacia, African Information Society Initiative, Canada’s Intern Development

Research Centres (IDRC), Y2K...

Collaboration among governments (donors and receivers); multi-stakeholders interventions;

(Geneva, Tunis) Action Areas e-government, e-business, e-learning, e-health, e-environment, e-agricolture, e-rural.

New opportunities for underpriviledged areas to catch up

New opportunities for underpriviledged areas to catch up Accentuation of uneven development – rich remain competitive

Inequalities among groups in terms of access to actual use of ability to (use of) impact of

ICTs.

Based on income age education gender ethnicity geography (urban vs rural + country)

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Factors that influence people to use technologies

Physical availability of ICTs, infrastructure

major to access

major to access

Literacies Content relevance Culture of information Cost of information Technophobia Complexity of ICTs Power/Control

1 Household = 1 Computer it does not work

A public place where people can access computers, the Internet, and other digital technologies to enable them to gather information, learn, and communicate with others, while they develop essential digital skills.

Digital Divide Inclusion Information Society

1983 – Harlem, USA 1985 - Sweden

Scandinavian Model Anglo-Saxon Model

Scandinavian Model – community/rural development Anglo-Saxon Model – profit/commercial oriented

1990s – exported to Developing Countries

ITU, UNESCO, USAID, ...

• Urban / rural • Multi-purpose / narrow focus • Stand-alone / attached • Community-based / establishment • Independent / networked • Profit-oriented / service-oriented • Publicly funded / privately funded

NEWMINE LAB – USI, Lugano Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique

(2011)

C M Cs i n M oz ambique

UNESCO 8 CMCs in Mozambique (Community Radios 1990s) scale-up phase (plan: 50 new CMCs) MZ Ministry of Science and Technology (128 districts) 34 CMCs

2000

2000-2004

2004-2005

2010

2011

local languages

oral communication

electricity

effective synergies

digital literacy courses

high maintenace costs

little contextualization

photocopies

appropriation

in-bound within community out-bound

in-bound within community out-bound

e-rural e-government e-learning e-health e-agricolture

e-environment e-business

sara.vannini@usi.ch

www.newmine.org www.react-project.ch