TY - GEN
T1 - The Expression of Power in ICT's Knowledge Enterprise
T2 - 2020 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, ICTD 2020
AU - Canevez, Richard
AU - Maitland, Carleen
AU - Ettayebi, Soundous
AU - Shaw, James
AU - Everson, Charlene
AU - Rantanen, Matthew
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Owner/Author.
PY - 2020/6/17
Y1 - 2020/6/17
N2 - ICT globalization continues to spread hardware, software, and accompanying technologies, so too does knowledges and trainings on those ICTs. This knowledge migration process has been linked by scholars to a 'colonial impulse' inherent in computing as a knowledge enterprise, which incorporates into broader colonizing forces. Through simultaneous explorations of dual case studies with a tribal ISP in California and an educational organization that works with indigenous First Nations communities in British Columbia, we depict how power circulates in this process, both empowering and disempowering communities. We then offer a brief argument for the need to foreground methods and approaches to disentangling these contradicting forces.
AB - ICT globalization continues to spread hardware, software, and accompanying technologies, so too does knowledges and trainings on those ICTs. This knowledge migration process has been linked by scholars to a 'colonial impulse' inherent in computing as a knowledge enterprise, which incorporates into broader colonizing forces. Through simultaneous explorations of dual case studies with a tribal ISP in California and an educational organization that works with indigenous First Nations communities in British Columbia, we depict how power circulates in this process, both empowering and disempowering communities. We then offer a brief argument for the need to foreground methods and approaches to disentangling these contradicting forces.
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U2 - 10.1145/3392561.3397580
DO - 10.1145/3392561.3397580
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85086893513
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
BT - Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, ICTD 2020
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 17 June 2020 through 20 June 2020
ER -