[2024]Digital Global Overview Report 2024 Meltwater.pdf
ITU speciale ideer fra FAIR Danmark
1. Introduction to FAIR and our projects
By Nis & Benjamin
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2. Who are we?
● FAIR Allocation of Infotech Resources
● Started in 2008
● Small NGO based in Copenhagen
● Workshop + Office + Warehouse
● Our goal is to combine a humanitarian goal of
reducing the digital divide with a environmental goal
of reusing ICT
● A pilot project in Malawi running for ~1 year
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3. Who we work with
● Company partners and private memberships
● Danish government
● Danida & Projektrådgivningen
● NGOs and schools
● NICE from Malawi (National Initiative for Civic
Education)
● Secondary Schools in Malawi
● REACT, Copenhagen / Sierra Leone
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4. Humanitarian goal: The digital divide
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Unequal access to ICT: information & communication,
knowledge production & sharing, organizational efficiency &
economy
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ICT in Malawi (2008)
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12% has a mobile phone, 0.2 % has a computer, 2.1 % has access
to internet
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ICT4D: Information and communication technologies for
development
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Education, health, democracy, enterprise
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6. Environmental goal: Reuse ICT
● Tons of wasted equipment (DK: 400.000+
computers)
● Consumerism, company strategies and policies
● 60% of EU E-waste is processed in EU – the rest??
● Average use: 3 years
● In developing world: Up to 10 years
● Ratio between production and consumption phase:
~80% of emissions come from production!
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9. Malawi
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Population: 15+ mio. (123 pr km2)
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GDP per capita: $322 => top 5 least developed
country
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Challenges
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Economic crisis, AIDS, Malaria, hunger, political
instability, corruption, gender inequality
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Peaceful, free press, free primary and secondary
school, good universities, never had war
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14. Computer Centers in Malawi
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4 secondary schools + 1 district council
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Each center has 30-50 computers
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Used by host school and remote schools
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Reaches out to ~4000 students, ~200 teachers and
community
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Computer & Democracy clubs and IT-courses
for local community
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Sustainability and learning environment
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16. Technology in the centers
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Server + LAN + Printer + Projector
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Edubuntu (Linux) + 30000 programs and
packages
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Full offline Wikipedia
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Khan Academy
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Digital Library + Video library
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18. Why do Master with FAIR?
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Interested in technologies and development
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Not the usual master thesis partner
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A relevant and ongoing case from a grass-root
perspective
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Your ideas, not pre-determined categories,
titles and subjects
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Access to a network of partners in Denmark
and Malawi
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19. What could a Master with FAIR
be?
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How can IT induce development?
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Reduce poverty, increase democracy, secure human rights?
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Technology transfers across multiple boundaries
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Geographical, cultural, environmental, political etc.
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Corporate Social Responsibility strategies
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Transferring innovation processes
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Open source software in development?
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IT and learning environments
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20. An example: a Master with FAIR
● Information studies: a sociology of technologies
● Technologies in development
● From modernization to partnerships
● An ethnography from the perspective of FAIR
● The computer as a socio-technical object
● Studying the configurations in practice
● In Denmark and Malawi
● Change context, change technologies
● Change technologies, change context
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21. The end
Thank you for listening!
www.fairdanmark.dk
nis@fairdanmark.dk
benjamin@fairdanmark.dk
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