New media

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New media Poverty relief
Wainer Lusoli
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New media poverty relief key questions

• What are new media?
• What is poverty?
• how are media and poverty related?
• New media FOR poverty relief
• New media IN poverty relief
• The good, the bad and the ugly

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What are new media?

• Computers and other hardware
• Databases and other software
• Mobile phones and digital cameras
• Internet and wireless technology

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What is poverty?

• Poverty can be conceived as absolute or relative,
  as lack of income or failure to attain
  capabilities. It can be chronic or temporary, is
  sometimes closely associated with inequity, and
  is often correlated with vulnerabilities and
  social exclusion.

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The big pond and the small ocean

• The big pond
• Leapfrogging divides

• The small ocean
• Communication ecology

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New media FOR poverty relief
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New media FOR poverty relief
Big pond 100 laptops

• Role of technology ubiquity, flexibility
• Role of traditional mediators
• development workers
• Governments
• businesses
• Education as expendable commodity
• Examples Robib, Bangalore

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New media IN poverty relief
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New media IN poverty relief
Small ocean telecentros

• Different media
• Mixing with society
• Creating / strengthening networks
• Challenging social norms exclusion
• Help local organising
• Visibility and voice of the marginalised
• Access to information and knowledge
• Improve lives and livelihoods

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The political
The economic
The social
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Links and further readings

• Slater, D., Tacchi, J. (2004). Research ICT
  innovation for poverty reduction. New Delhi
  UNESCO.
• Pini, B., Brown, K., Previte, J. (2004).
  Politics and identity in cyberspace. Information,
  Communication Society, 7(2), 167-184.
• Brian Loader and Leigh Keeble. (2004) Challenging
  the digital divide? York Joseph Rowntree
  Foundation.
• http//laptop.media.mit.edu/
• http//ethnobase.lse.ac.uk/
• http//www.digitalopportunity.org
• http//www.unites.org/
• CREDIT http//as020.k12.sd.us/ZacandJosh.HTM

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