{"id":13,"date":"2003-04-03T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-03T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/2003\/04\/03\/the-cutting-edge-of-icts-for-internat"},"modified":"2003-04-03T17:52:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-03T21:52:00","slug":"the-cutting-edge-of-icts-for-international-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/2003\/04\/03\/the-cutting-edge-of-icts-for-international-change\/","title":{"rendered":"The cutting edge of ICTs for international change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a6'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>My colleague <A href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/people\/moore.html\">Jim Moore<\/A> has done a great job in <A href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/people\/jmoore\/secondsuperpower.html\">his most recent piece<\/A> at capturing some of the&nbsp;flavor of how the Internet has made an impact globally in linking voices and views that could never before have been heard in such force.&nbsp; The sociology and politics of how the Internet&nbsp;can strengthen civil society &#8212; the story behind&nbsp;the Second Superpower story &#8212; are fascinating.&nbsp; We can only hope that this kind of trend that Jim points out indeed overshadows and counteracts the ignorance and apathy that seem so rampant these days.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>This strand of thinking is one of the things that is needed more within the international development community &#8212; instead of fixating on numbers of Internet connections and on what consulting firm is going to design what &#8220;e-Strategy,&#8221; it is much more useful and important to figure out how people are using the new technologies and how that use is re-shaping the world.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>With such powerful geo-political shifts going on right now, the political and sociological impacts of the technology need to be acknowledged and better understood.&nbsp; And the international development agenda needs to be reworked accordingly.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My colleague Jim Moore has done a great job in his most recent piece at capturing some of the&nbsp;flavor of how the Internet has made an impact globally in linking voices and views that could never before have been heard in such force.&nbsp; The sociology and politics of how the Internet&nbsp;can strengthen civil society &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}