Mobile Phones and the Transformation of the Informal Economy:  Stories from market women in Kampala

ICT4Development and promotion of minority rights:

ICT4 development and promotion of minority rights: the case of a sexual minority organization in Uganda.   Uganda has since the introduction of the anti-homosexuality bill of 2009, experienced an increasingly polarized media discourse on sexual minority rights. Rights that are indisputable for other Ugandan citizens most notably rights to privacy, health and indeed life, are […]

Focused training for digital inclusion of subject teachers in Bolivia

Iskra Popova, Stockholm University, DSV Gabriela Fabre, Fundacion La Paz

M-Health, Gender, and Organisational Challenges in HIV/AIDs Initiatives in Africa

Using my own ethnographic research data from Ghana in 2010-2011 and an intensive literature review in 2013, this paper explores gender and organisational challenges in implementing, scaling up, and sustaining mobile phone-based health projects in HIV/AIDS initiatives in Ghana, South Africa, and Uganda. The use of mobile technology for health outcomes, known as mobile health […]