Citation

Best ML. Commun. ACM 2014; 57(4): 27-29.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Association for Computing Machinery)

DOI

10.1145/2580943

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The article discusses how to encourage the opportunities for digital innovation and invention to flourish in a variety of social environments. Approximately 750,000 reports were analyzed through the SMTC system during the three-week election period. Social media activity peaked during the April 16, 2011 Presidential election. When violence erupted in the North of the country, Aggie received nearly 50 reports a second. The system has been replicated for elections in Liberia, Ghana, and Kenya, with results that are only now being analyzed robustly though initial results show great promise. When issues of sustainability arise in computing initiatives in the Global South they tend to focus on financial self-sustainability tethered to market forces and neoliberal economic theory. However, there are other forms of sustainability that demand our attention: environmental, technological, social and cultural, political and institutional.

Language: en