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Sammia is interested in finding the connection between basic IT skills training courses and the student's views on ICTs. Even thought current discourses support the idea that ICTs can be used for development purposes, when refering to day to day usage, people seem to use ICTs mostly for communication and entertainment. When situated outside an specific development project, the individual's choices are the ones that will determine the type of usage she is giving to ICTs. Why is that people just use computers for Facebook, when they could use it ALSO for studying online? Why they know how to use youtube to find videos they find funny, but don't use it to find videos that may help them solve practical problems at home?
According to the Capability Approach (CA), a person improves her development when she is capable of doing or being what she values and has reasons to value. Therefore, ICTs may help to improve a person's development, if they become instrumental to achieve her values. However, what if that person does not know what she values? or, what if her values have been altered by poverty, depravation or inequalities? The CA defines this issue as adaptive preference. This situation, is also understood by Paulo Freire, brazilian pedagoguish, as oppression (Freire 1970), seems to be one of the main challenges for individuals to use ICTs for their own development. People who have limited view of their lives, have difficulty defining what their values are. How to increase an individual’s development, if on the first place, she does not know what she values? If several individuals suffer from this lack, how to provide support to improve their social inclusion?
To investigate this scenario, fieldwork was performed with two organizations in Campinas, Brazil. While both intent to promote citizenship by allowing free access to computers and internet, and to free basic IT skills courses, one is a NGO that applies Freire's methodology, trying to promote a critical view about ICTs, and the other is a governmental program which applies a more traditional approach.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Social Studies, Master, Information and Knowledge Society, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
2007 → 2009
Award Date: 19 Sept 2016
Communications, Master, Multimedia Creation and Production, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
2005 → 2007
Award Date: 19 Jul 2016
Management, MBA, Marketing Strategical Management, Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV)
2005 → 2006
Award Date: 19 Jun 2016
Design, Bachelor, Design, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
1999 → 2004
Award Date: 19 Apr 2016
Teaching, Certificate, Programme in Skills of Teaching to Inspire Learning IinSTIL), Royal Holloway, University of London
18 Sept 2011 → 15 Jul 2012
Award Date: 30 Sept 2012
PhD tutor, The Brilliant Club
Apr 2014 → Jul 2015
Co-coordination of the Technology Group, Human Development and Capability Association
2013 → …
Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Kleine, D., Poveda Villalba, S. & Pearson, G.
1/10/15 → 1/06/16
Project: Research