Who really benefits from digital development?

Image Credits: blackdovfx / Getty Images. Article by Kevin Klyman. TechCrunch – February 7, 2022.

The TechCrunch Global Affairs Project examines the increasingly intertwined relationship between the tech sector and global politics.

Like almost every sector, international development has attracted the attention of technologists who believe they can code away problems — and development practitioners have encouraged them. From USAID to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the United Nations, digital development programs are proliferating. While some initiatives are quite useful, there are reasons to think they are not as effective as the hype would have us believe; in some cases, they are actively harmful. […]

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