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<P class=MsoNormal style='FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt'><SPAN lang=EN-GB style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri Light",sans-serif'>Dear colleagues,<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style='FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt'><SPAN lang=EN-GB style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri Light",sans-serif'>you can register until August 31 for our upcoming international conference “Digitalisation in Africa: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Technology, Development, and Justice”, which will take place on 26 and 27 September 2018 at the International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, University of Tübingen, Germany. Please visit <SPAN class=gmail-MsoHyperlink style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; COLOR: rgb(5,99,193)"><A style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; COLOR: rgb(5,99,193)" href="http://www.da-ethics2018.de">www.da-ethics2018.de</A></SPAN>. <SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style='FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt'><SPAN lang=EN-GB style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri Light",sans-serif'>Laura Schelenz<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style='FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt'><SPAN lang=EN-GB style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri Light",sans-serif'><SPAN> <A href="mailto:laura.schelenz@uni-tuebingen.de">laura.schelenz@uni-tuebingen.de</A></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style='FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt'><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri Light",sans-serif'>Digitalisation in Africa: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Technology, Development and Justice<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style='FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt'><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri Light",sans-serif'>26 and 27 September 2018, Tübingen, Germany<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style='FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt'><SPAN lang=EN-GB style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri Light",sans-serif'>Corporate actors, civil society and government stakeholders are increasingly implementing information and communication technologies (ICT) in the Global South. Especially sub-Saharan Africa has become the focus of technology-based development initiatives. </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri Light",sans-serif'>Examples range from free access to specific content on the internet (“zero-rating”) to e-health, e-education, e-government and e-agriculture programmes, as well as mobile banking applications and ICT infrastructure</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri Light",sans-serif'>. With growing activity in the fields of digitalisation and ICT for development (ICT4D) in Africa, critical questions have to be raised: What are the motivations behind ICT export and digitalisation programmes? How are technologies used, who is excluded from ICT use and why? Bearing in mind that technologies are not neutral but have certain values inscribed in them, how are digital technologies designed, and what impact does this have on individual opportunities for action as well as societal futures? In which ways do ICT change (moral) norms of action, cultural traditions and the distribution of power? Does the export of ICT by Western companies and development programmes have "neo-colonial" effects? Other relevant topics concern local content, gender dynamics, and the values of privacy and access to information. <SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style='FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt'><SPAN lang=EN-GB style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri Light",sans-serif'>At the conference, we wish to address the above and related questions. </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri Light",sans-serif'>The conference should foster a</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri Light",sans-serif'>n interdisciplinary and intercultural exchange between scholars and practitioners from all continents. We will have several talks by researchers and practitioners from Africa and Europe, two keynote lectures, a networking session, a social program and a conference dinner. <SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style='FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt'><SPAN lang=EN-GB style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri Light",sans-serif'>You can register for participation in the conference until August 31, 2018. Please visit <SPAN class=gmail-MsoHyperlink style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; COLOR: rgb(5,99,193)"><A style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; COLOR: rgb(5,99,193)" href="http://www.da-ethics2018.de/registration">www.da-ethics2018.de/registration</A></SPAN>. <SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P><BR></DIV></DIV>
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