Datafication, Dehumanisation and Participatory Development

Roberts, Tony; Zheng, Yingqin

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-19429-0_23

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“…This calls for assessing existing regulation on both intended welfare outcomes and unintended consequences to ethical principles and fundamental rights. Assembling multi-stakeholder insights on present impediments and constructive roadmaps to address complex sociotechnical realities through a rightsfirst legislative standpoint can make digital transitions reflective of a pluralistic society's needs and aspirations beyond selective interests of control alone (Roberts and Zheng 2022). Research areas can include for example: evaluating strengths and limitations of current laws under the paradigm of rights to information; dissent and dignity to chart specific principles at risk across activists, minorities and marginalised groups; and studying ruling patterns for traceable biases, group impacts, and reasoning gaps betraying narrow institutional priorities rather than upholding pluralistic Digital Age values.…”

Section: Digital Ethics and The Regulatory Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digitalisation of State Services in Bangladesh

Khene,

Hernandez

2024

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The government-led digital strategy in Bangladesh began well before the Covid-19 pandemic; the pandemic itself simply accelerated the digitalisation of public services globally. This report examines digital innovations across essential public services in Bangladesh, particularly those spurred on by the Covid-19 pandemic. It highlights major accountability and access outcomes, especially for marginalised groups across different capacities, identities, and geographic regions. The report looks at digitalisation experiences in key areas, including education, health, social protection, accountability, and addressing violence against women. While the pandemic accelerated these efforts, it also revealed persistent digital inequalities in terms of access, capacity, and structural factors such as human capital, political economy, and social and cultural norms. Rather than framing technology as an automatically efficiency-enhancing tool, the report illustrates on the ground realities and constructs a more nuanced perspective. It positions technology as an enabler in realising better futures together, while also underscoring challenges around digital rights and government oversight. The report calls for deliberative approaches in designing digital public services, enabling digital ethics in regulation, and gathering critical data on minority groups, connectivity, and actual digital service users. This frames technology as part of a broader, inclusive development agenda, rather than an ends in itself.

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Section: Digital Ethics and The Regulatory Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digitalisation of State Services in Bangladesh

Khene,

Hernandez

2024

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“…Critical theory, in the realm of population identification, involves a deconstruction of the categories and labels used to classify individuals or groups within society (Kellner, 1990;Roberts & Zheng, 2022;Schwandt, 2007). This deconstruction aims to uncover the hidden assumptions and power dynamics that underlie the construction of these categories.…”

Section: Vct Pragmatic Theory and Issues In Population Identificationmentioning

confidence: 99%