TY  - RPRT
A1  - Pawelec, Maria
T1  - How Bridge International’s tech-driven for-profit schools in Africa may reinforce global power inequalities
T2  - sicherheitspolitik-blog.de
N2  - Bridge International is a for-profit chain of private (pre-)primary schools employing technology to allegedly provide “high-quality, affordable education” in the Global South. Like many other actors, Bridge (cl)aims to bridge the global digital divide and to use information and communication technologies to realize development (“ICT4D”), in particular in sub-Saharan Africa. But are such projects really allowing the region to “catch up” with the rest of the world and strengthen its weak global standing? Not necessarily. Many projects’ implementation mirrors existing global power inequalities and may even reinforce them.1 Moreover, the technologies employed themselves augment these imbalances. The present contribution illustrates this, using Bridge as a case study.
KW  - Bridge International
KW  - Global South
KW  - ICT4D
KW  - schools
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/46479
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-464791
UR  - https://www.sicherheitspolitik-blog.de/2018/06/19/how-bridge-internationals-tech-driven-for-profit-schools-in-africa-may-reinforce-global-power-inequalities/
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CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -