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Sara Vannini NewMinE (New Media in Education) Lab
...international
...marginalized social groups
EU enlightenment Linear progress Economical, social and political welfare
Pb ?
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)
vs
vs
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
www.newmine.org www.react-project.ch