Indra de Lanerolle – The Conversation

However powerful technologies may seem, choices are made by people – not the machines they invent. Legnan Koula/EPA

August 28, 2016

Technology can boost active citizenship – if it’s chosen well

Indra de Lanerolle, University of the Witwatersrand

Very few organisations in the field of civic technology are choosing the right tools for the job.

Most South Africans are dependent on unaffordable mobile data to access the Internet. Indra de Lanerolle

June 1, 2016

Internet freedom: why access is becoming a human right

Indra de Lanerolle, University of the Witwatersrand

It is time to demand the ‘positive right’ of affordable access if we want internet freedom for all.

Africa faces high data costs but it does not deter Africans from using the internet. Reuters/Feisal Omar

September 15, 2015

Data remains an expensive luxury in Africa but free internet may not come free

Indra de Lanerolle, University of the Witwatersrand

For millions of South Africans, access to data for the internet is a luxury.

Proposals by the Film and Publications Board to monitor online activities may be much more difficult to implement than envisaged. shutterstock

June 30, 2015

Censorship of online content: paternalism versus parental guidance

Indra de Lanerolle, University of the Witwatersrand

Censorship may not be the answer, but there needs to be acknowledgement of the challenges involved in the disruption of media that the internet is wreaking across the planet and in people’s homes.

Window on the world: Children in Nigeria film a Yoruba religious procession on their cellphones. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye

May 27, 2015

Mobile phones the pathway to internet in Africa

Indra de Lanerolle, University of the Witwatersrand

The continent’s poor have tasted the power of the internet and have a desire for more.

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