[okfn-br] Technologies of Choice? – ICTs, development and the capabilities approach (5/28)

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 May 15th, 2013

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  berkman luncheon series/book launch Technologies of Choice? – ICTs,
development and the capabilities approach
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2013/05/kleine>

Tuesday, *May 28*, 12:30pm ET, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23
Everett St, 2nd Floor. This event will be webcast live.
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ICT for development (ICT4D) scholars claim that the internet, radio and
mobile phones can support development. Yet the dominant paradigm of
development as economic growth is too limiting to understand the full
potential of these technologies. One key rival to such econocentric
understandings is Amartya Sen’s capabilities approach to development –
focusing on a pluralistic understanding of people’s values and the lives
they want to lead.

In her book, Technologies of Choice? (MIT Press 2013), Dorothea Kleine
translates Sen’s approach into policy analysis and ethnographic work on
technology adaptation. She shows how technologies are not neutral, but
imbued with values that may or may not coincide with the values of users.
The case study analyses Chile’s pioneering ICT policies in the areas of
public access, digital literacy, and online procurement and the sobering
reality of one of the most marginalised communities in the country where
these policies play out. The book shows how both neoliberal and egalitarian
ideologies are written into technologies as they permeate the everyday
lives and livelihoods of women and men in the town.

Technologies of Choice? examines the relationship between ICTs, choice, and
development. It argues for a people-centred view of development that has
individual and collective choice at its heart.

Discussant: Dr Nancy Hafkin (formerly UN Economic Commission for Africa)

*Dorothea Kleine* is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography and Director of the
interdisciplinary ICT4D Centre at Royal Holloway, University of London. *RSVP
Required. * more information on our
website><http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2013/05/kleine>
 video/audio Justin Reich on Personalized Learning, Backpacks Full of Cash,
Rockstar Teachers, and MOOC
Madness<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheons/2013/05/reich>
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berkman]

 For decades, policymakers and futurists have heralded digital tools as
essential to the the future of learning. Has the moment of disruptive
transformational revolution finally arrived? If we are at a watershed
moment, what futures are available to us? Justin Reich -- visiting lecturer
at MIT, Berkman fellow, and educational researcher -- discusses the
intersection of technology, free-market ideology, and media hype in U.S.
education reform. video/audio on our
website><http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheons/2013/05/reich>
   Other Events of Note

Events that may be of interest to the Berkman community:

   - 5/16-17: Legal Frontiers in Digital
Media<http://mlrc-digitallaw.stanford.edu/>(Stanford University)
   - 5/16-17: Governing Algorithms
Conference<http://governingalgorithms.org/>(NYU)
   - 5/20: Social Media for Nonprofits <http://www.sm4np.org/boston/> (MS
   NERD Cambridge)
   - 5/23: ICT, Law, and Innovation: Recent Developments, Challenges, and
   Lessons Learned <http://www.nocistanbul.com/> (Istanbul Bilgi University)
   - 6/6-7: Personal Democracy Forum
2013<http://personaldemocracy.com/conferences/nyc/2013>(NYC)
   - 6/11: Start-Up City: Building Boston’s Entrepreneurial
Ecosystem<http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6559017197?utm_source=eb_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=new_eventv2&utm_term=eventurl_text>(Rappaport
Institute)
   - 6/16-18: ODR2013 <http://odr2013.org/> (Montreal)
   - 8/7-11: Wikimania
2013<http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_page>(Hong Kong)

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