South Africa: Co-Creating a Locally Relevant Web

Who is the internet designed for? Is it locally relevant? Who are the people being left behind in the fourth industrial revolution? These are a few of the questions that have emerged from Dr Melissa Densmore's research into bandwidth-constrained communities in and around Cape Town.

A senior lecturer in computer science at the University of Cape Town (UCT) School of Information Technology, Densmore is also the coordinator of the UCT Hasso-Plattner Institute Research School and part of the UCT Centre in Information and Communications Technologies for Development (ICT4D).

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