Dorothea Kleine on ICTs, Development and the Capabilities Approach [AUDIO]
May 28th, 2013
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.
Dorothea Kleine translates Amartya Sen’s capabilities approach to development –- focusing on a pluralistic understanding of people’s values and the lives they want to lead — into policy analysis and ethnographic work on technology adaptation to show how technologies are not neutral, but imbued with values that may or may not coincide with the values of users.
Dorothea Kleine — Senior Lecturer in Human Geography and Director of the interdisciplinary ICT4D Centre at Royal Holloway, University of London — discusses this and other insights from her recent book “Technologies of Choice: ICTs, Development and the Capabilities Approach.”
She is joined by Nancy J. Hafkin — formerly of the UN Economic Commission for Africa — as a discussant.
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