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Evaluating Online Safety Programs

syoung — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:35:58 -0400

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The Future of Internet Safety Education: Critical Lessons from Four Decades of Youth Drug Abuse Prevention

syoung — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:12:43 -0400

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Online Safety: Why Research is Important

syoung — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:30:48 -0400

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Moving Beyond One Size Fits All With Digital Citizenship

syoung — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:11:23 -0400

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I. Introduction

Understanding our Knowledge Gaps: Or, Do we have an ICT4D field? And do we want one?

syoung — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:50:06 -0500

Recent discussions, either at already concluded ICT4D conferences and workshops, or here at the Harvard Forum, or in the planning discussions for future conferences, have reminded us of the sometimes strong and often unhelpful disciplinary walls that can be constructed across ICT4D’s cross-disciplinary areas and the common tendency for this field to intellectually jog-in-place.

The Need for a "Knowledge Web" for Scholarship

Caroline — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:46:52 -0500

Policies for the Natives Designed by the Immigrants?: Night Thoughts After a Workshop Day at the Berkman Centre

syoung — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:04:42 -0500

Three terms appearing in an agenda, "Reputation", "Privacy" and "Quality of Information", and a somewhat vague invitation to think about "Youth Policy" made me recall a moment in my life, a long time ago, when my mother - while I was at school - invaded the privacy o

Bring in the Human Rights

Caroline — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:55:55 -0500

For a more elaborate account of the arguments presented in this essay, see Drake and Jørgensen, Introduction, in Human Rights in the Global Information Society, Rikke Frank Jørgensen (ed.), MIT Press: Cambridge, MA 2006.

Free Culture Research Workshop 2009 at Harvard Law School

syoung — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:31:18 -0500

The Free Culture 2009 research workshop built on the enthusiasm generated by the First Interdisciplinary Research Workshop on Free Culture which took place during the 2008 iSummit in Sapporo, Japan.

Metaphors We Regulate By

Caroline — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:37:23 -0400

Many of the celebrated possibilities of the Internet, such as the empowerment of civil society and the advancement of human rights, are presumably linked to the Net’s public features, which potentially foster increased access to information and new means for contributing to the public domain of knowledge.

A Brief Overview of U.S. Public Policy on OER from California's Community Colleges to the Obama Administration

Caroline — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:10:52 -0400

This post draws significantly from an interview on August 10, 2009 with Hal Plotkin, a Senior Advisor at the U.S. Dept. of Education, who has closely followed and been involved with OER policies in California.

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Deepening Understanding and Addressing Key Challenges

syoung — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:30:41 -0400

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Open ICT ecosystems transforming the developing world

syoung — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:54:21 -0400

This paper is forthcoming in the Journal of Information Technology and International Development.

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ICT Diffusion: Have we really made any progress?

syoung — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:30:34 -0400

It is undoubted that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is often considered as one of the main pillars for human and socio-economic development. It is therefore widely recognized that ICTs are becoming increasingly popular as tools for improving human, technical and financial capital for the benefit of individuals, communities and nation-states.

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A Response to "A Dialogue on ICTs, Human Development, Growth and Poverty Reduction"

syoung — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:39:18 -0400

If we imagine Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle falling asleep in a developing nation in 1998 and awaking today, it's likely that he'd be fascinated and surprised by mobile phones. When Rip went to sleep, only a few hundred million people had access to mobile phones, and most lived in wealthy nations.

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Gender, ICTs, Human Development and Prosperity

syoung — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:37:45 -0400

Plus ca change!

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Social Enterprise to Mobiles – The Curious Case of a Propped up ICTD Theory

syoung — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:23:36 -0400

Appropriating the tremendous potential of new ICTs for meeting development challenges requires a sound theoretical basis – drawing from the social theories of ICTs and connecting them to the experience and values of development thought and practice.

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A Response to "A Dialogue on ICTs, Human Development, Growth and Poverty Reduction"

syoung — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:53:12 -0400

In general terms, I found the paper (A Dialogue on ICTs, Human Development, Growth, and Poverty Reduction) fascinating and provocative, as it is one of the first attempts that I am aware of to link two insofar separate fields, i.e., organizational theory and ICT4D.

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Capital, Power, and the Next Step in Decentralization

syoung — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:04:34 -0400

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A Response to "A Dialogue on ICTs, Human Development, Growth and Poverty Reduction"

syoung — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:49:54 -0400

Subtle Strategies in Unleashing Community's Inner Capacity

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Broadening the Agenda for ICT for Poverty Reduction

syoung — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:42:44 -0400

1. The explosive growth since the last ICT4D

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Reflecting on Social and Gender Injustice In The Context of Human Development, Poverty and ICTs

syoung — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:29:52 -0400

Introduction

In concerning ourselves about the role of ICTs for human development and poverty reduction, we take a position grounded in a sense of social justice, and we look through the lens of human agency at the economic potential of ICTs.

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The Poverty of Policy and Practice [1]

syoung — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:24:46 -0400

For the last five years since Harvard I, Research ICT Africa (RIA) has been systematically collecting current supply side ICT indicators, and developing the only systematic demand side ICT indicators, in 18 countries across the continent in order to understand policy reform on the continent.

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LAN Houses: A new wave of digital inclusion in Brazil

syoung — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:10:12 -0400

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Access Beyond Developmentalism: Technology and the Intellectual Life of the Poor

syoung — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:20:24 -0400

In February 2009 we invited the French philosopher Jacques Ranciere to Delhi for the release of his book “Nights of Labour” which we had translated into Hindi, and to have a conversation with a group of young writers and practitioners at the Cybermohalla (“CM”) in Dakshinpuri.

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