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Research topic
Technologies of Risk: The Collateral Implications of Digital Technologies
Efforts to promote universal access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) continue to be a significant focus of a myriad development efforts – and even more so since the COVID-19 pandemic. But digital development outcomes are not always positive, and nor are they equally distributed. Digital development efforts can and do expose people to new, different, and global risks for which they might be ill-prepared – thereby potentially exacerbating existing socio-digital inequalities or even introducing new ones. Given that most research on digital development outcomes tend to focus on collateral benefits and positive outcomes, and fail to interrogate how these are distributed, this research examines the ways in which diverse stakeholders evaluate, perceive, and respond to digital development risks in select African countries.
Biography
Anri has a background in law, communications governance, digital policy and development. Before starting her PhD, she managed Research ICT Africa’s Digital Policy Project as a senior researcher, where she is now a doctoral fellow. An admitted attorney (lawyer) with expertise in media law, Anri previously received an MSc degree (distinction) in Media and Communications Governance from LSE’s Department of Media and Communications. In her native South Africa, she also completed an MPhil in Media, Democracy and Development (cum laude), a BPhil (honours) in Journalism, and an LLB (law) degree at the University of Stellenbosch.
Anri is an associate of both the CyberBRICS initiative and the Fairwork Project (based at the Oxford Internet Institute); and serves on the advisory boards of the Freedom Online Coalition and Christchurch Call process respectively. She has consulted on Internet and digital policy challenges, with a development focus, to various United Nations and intergovernmental agencies (including UNESCO, the ITU, the UN Secretariat of the Internet Governance Forum, the UN Broadband Commission on Sustainable Development, the African Development Bank, and the World Bank); for stakeholders participating in processes/fora like the G20 and G7; for Internet-focused and related entities like the Internet Society and ICANN; and for global NGOs specialising in communications governance challenges.
Expertise
Internet Governance; Digital or Cyber Policy; Digital Inequality; Digital Risk.
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