Tag: Hivos

• Are we pushing our digital native children towards a Catch-22 future?

  With the use of digital learning devices in classrooms, educators and policy makers have set ‘interactivity’ and ‘attention span’ as the benchmark for progress in classrooms. But with psychologists and academicians constantly warning us about the permanent brain and behavior changes that our ‘connected lives’ are leading to, are we forcing our children to learn…

  Nilofar Haja

  April 4, 2012

  Cyberculture, Pyschology, Sociology

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• Engineering a Cyber Twin: How do we design identities online?

  This is an excerpt from the essay ‘Engineering a Cyber Twin’, published by Centre for Internet and Society, and Hivos, in ‘Digital AlterNatives with a cause?’ | The Hague: July 2011 | Download the four-volume collective here.   Note: MyCyberTwin.com is a web-based artificial intelligence service founded by tech-duo Liesl Capper and John Zakos in…

  Nilofar Haja

  September 20, 2011

  Cyberculture, Ethnography

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