In Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic, digital tech solutions mostly failed, yet they nevertheless unleashed new logics of governance and capital accumulation by states and corporations.
Thinking of digital witnessing as iteration, or collaborative communication for change, allows us to see how power inflects who and what are— and are not— witnessed.
The right of assembly in online spaces raises questions about the nature of presence and participation and faces challenges due to the commercial logics of online spaces.
The expansion of digital infrastructure is having material and concrete impacts on society and the environment. This phenomenon is rendering obsolete binary distinctions between the “physical” and the “virtual”…
2020-22 saw us into our second decade as a research centre. The background to this was the pandemic, which presented many challenges. We adapted and supported each other.
A withering analysis of the tragic susceptibility of interventionist peace deals to precipitate ongoing violence.
This paper identifies persistent gaps in the consideration of ethical practice in ‘technology for good’ development contexts.
The ideal of unfettered data circulation has fallen into crisis.
The construction of observatories in the Atacama Desert has prompted actors in Chile to envision initiatives for promoting the expansion of data infrastructure.
A novel remote qualitative research tool, Katikati, is used to engage with conflict-affected communities in Somalia on their experiences of a COVID-19 lockdown to help shape pandemic response.
Data collaborations have gained currency over the last decade as a means for data- and skills-poor actors to thrive as a fourth paradigm takes hold in the sciences.
A multimethod evaluative study in Somalia of interactive radio-SMS highlights its potential as a mixed methods social research capability in low and middle income countries during health emergencies.