Professor Srinivasan argues that we must re-think the global expansion of technologies away from simple ideas of access and embrace diverse cultural and community-based value systems. This talk explores the ways in which diverse communities on the margins of today's world are re-making and subverting technologies, shaping literacy and development in rural India, indigenous knowledge systems in Native American digital museums, and political revolutions within the Arab Spring. This talk argues that to empower diversity and support social justice and democratization we must pay attention step away from the design laboratories of Silicon Valley and look at the vast ways in which cultures and communities are attempting to engage with the digital age.
