445 research outputs found
Gender data : what is it and why is it important for the future of AI systems?
No full textPayal Arora and Weijie Huang ; issuing department Competence Centre on the Future of Wor
Facebook and the digital romance economy: courtship, scams, and internet regulation in the global South.
No full textThrough the controversial internet.org initiative, Facebook now serves as The Internet to the majority of the world’s marginalized demographic. The Politics of Data series continues with Payal Arora discussing the role of Facebook and internet regulation in the global South. While the West have had privacy laws in place since the 1970s, the emerging markets are only now seriously grappling with this. This piece explores some of the unfolding areas of vulnerability in the digital romance economy
Afterthoughts
No full textWriters Sugata Mitra and Payal Arora were invited to provide some afterthoughts having read each other's papers. As Arora observes, the Hole-in-the-Wall approach has shown that the absence of a teacher can sometimes encourage children to explore more bravely than they would in their presence. However, as she again observes, institutional indifference may result in abdication of responsibility and lack of sustainability. It sells its products to schools and hence locates its kiosks on school playgrounds. She also wonders whether placing of computers in playgrounds may not only breed collaboration but competition and discrimination. Payal Arora likes to focus on just two aspects of the Kalikuppam experiment. The design of the experiment itself and the role of the mediator. It is important to bear in mind that the children coming to these learning kiosks also continued to be taught in the formal classroom
Digital life beyond the West
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.New-media pundits obsess over online privacy and security, cyberbullying, and revenge porn, but do these things really matter in most of the world? The Next Billion Users reveals that many assumptions about internet use in developing countries are wrong. After immersing herself in factory towns, slums, townships, and favelas, Payal Arora assesses real patterns of internet usage in India, China, South Africa, Brazil, and the Middle East. She finds Himalayan teens growing closer by sharing a single computer with common passwords and profiles. In China's gaming factories, the line between work and leisure disappears. In Riyadh, a group of young women organize a YouTube fashion show. Why do citizens of states with strict surveillance policies appear to care so little about their digital privacy? Why do Brazilians eschew geo-tagging on social media? What drives young Indians to friend "foreign" strangers on Facebook and give "missed calls" to people? The Next Billion Users answers these questions and many more. Through extensive fieldwork, Arora demonstrates that the global poor are far from virtuous utilitarians who mainly go online to study, find jobs, and obtain health information. She reveals habits of use bound to intrigue everyone from casual internet users to developers of global digital platforms to organizations seeking to reach the next billion internet users.--The leisure divide -- Natives at play -- Media bandits -- Virtuous poor -- Slumdog inspiration -- Poverty laboratory -- Privacy, paucity, and profit -- Forbidden love.1 online resource (269 pages
How the next billion users are challenging global tech assessment: Interview with Payal Arora
No full textDigital Leisure and Aspirational Work among Venezuelan Refugee and Migrant Women in Brazil
No full textThis chapter builds on a UNHCR Innovation Service project in partnership with Erasmus University Rotterdam, supported by the Government of Luxembourg, where we examined the opportunities afforded by digital leisure for Venezuelan refugees and migrants in northern Brazil. The project aimed to assess the ways in which refugees and migrants use digital media for entertainment and the possibilities of these uses for improved livelihoods. In this chapter, we focus on three women who participated in the project and their perspectives on content creation using digital media. The field work took place in late 2021 in two shelters in northwestern Brazil and involved in-depth interviews with fifteen participants, and a workshop on how to be a digital influencer. The analysis of these three cases presents different ways in which refugee and migrant women use digital media and their aspirations for a better life through content creation
Forbes named Payal Arora the “Next Billion champion” as one of the key people to change tech in their article ‘10,000 People In Copenhagen Are About To Determine A Better Future For You’
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