Portfolio
Created by: Amelia Bryne
For: First Monday (journal)
Service: Framework Design
Date: 2006
Project Description:
Over the past decade the digital divide has been the subject of much attention from development agencies, researchers, NGOs, governments, and the private sector. Yet, digital divide work frequently ignores information about what it is like on “the other side of the information highway”. Deep Tech member Amelia Bryne developed a framework that focuses work in ways and in areas consistently overlooked by the digital divide, particularly on the realities, voices, and complexities within its unconnected, “have not” spaces — the zones of silence. Encouraging critical questioning of assumptions and an understanding of local contexts and points of view, a zones of silence framework is a way to broaden the dialogue on global communication and information access beyond a discourse of need, to one of mutual questioning, sharing, and learning. The framework was published in First Monday, and has been widely discussed by an international audience.