For Intro to Civic Media this week, we talked about and created a model for digital inequality. My group came up with a cute representation of digital inequality using a tree, where its roots represent components that add to digital equality, the leaves represent the fruit of digital equality, and […]
Daily Archives: September 17, 2012
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In our second Civic Media Class at the MIT we worked on a model that could illustrate the problem of digital exclusion or limitations that make people have different qualities of access to the internet. Our discussion departed from interesting article talking about different factors that influence exclusion. One of […]
Last class, we formed small groups to create a model of digital inclusion. My group tried to create a tool that would help us assess if and to what extent a community was digitally inclusive. The hope was that by creating such a tool, the components of a model to […]
Last week heralded my first class in CMS.360, and I loved it. Even though everyone else in the class seems much more well informed than me, I feel that’s a great thing. I have no reason to attend college and take this course if I already knew about Civic Media. […]
It is important to debate digital inclusion because having access to the digital world opens virtually infinite possibilities for humans to question, build and eventually change their reality. The digital society has brought humanity together more than any other invention in human kind. Providing equal access to all humans is […]