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Tony Roberts
@phat_controller
Digital Research Fellow @IDS_UK. PhD in ICT4D. ex-@UNUmacau. Founder & ex-CEO @Computer_Aid Founding Director @BONDngo. Free typo with every Tweet
Sep 18, 2020 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
The Netflix film "The Social Dilema" provides a mass audience for critiques of social media surveillance but gives tech bros a platform to absolve themselves and no voice to the women scholars who have worked for years on these issues. @safiyanoble @ruha9
slate.com/technology/202… I liked the part in the film "The Social Dilema" where they pushed on past the simplistic slogan that "If the product is free then you are the product" to Lanier's re-formulation "the product is actually imperceptibly small and unconscious changes in your beliefs and behaviour".
May 30, 2019 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
Top Ten Rules of Technology for Social Change: A Thread.
The 140 character version of what I'm learning and teaching
about technology for development and social justice.

#ict4d #tech4dev #ict4dev #civictech 1. Technology is not inherently good or bad; nor is it neutral
(Melvin Kranzberg 1985).