Archive: development
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The Internet is…: Globalizing Adolescence & Adolescent Globalization
This essay shamelessly attempts one of the most common fads of our time: that is, taking the Internet and stuffing it into one singular box with one singular framework and thus one singular effect. M
Categories: 2012, Globalization Column, The Gnovis Blog
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Contested Development
This blog arrives in response to fellow gnoviser Colleen Valentine's insightful post about the relationship between Western culture and female reproductive rights. At the end of her blog, Colleen won
Categories: 2012, Globalization Column, The Gnovis Blog
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Our Exceptional Age of Technology?
Nowadays it is almost common to see young children, even infants, with some sort of gadget in their hands. Additionally, they are exposed to media that is not physically in their hands: television, m
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Fusing the Social and the Technical: A Technology Assessment of FEWSNet and Positive Social Externalities in Burkina Faso
Abstract: Focusing on the process of technological diffusion in participatory development, and studying it in practice, is fundamental to understanding how technology can improve development. Rogers
Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal
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The Limits of Technology for Sustainable Development Challenges: Rovieng, Cambodia
Abstract: The widespread deployment of Internet technologies is dramatically impacting the world's information infrastructures thereby reducing the planet to a much smaller place. New worldwide connec
Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal