The Next Billion Users: What Got Us Here Won’t Get Us There (Video)
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Ahmedabad University
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In this session of The Conversation Series, Professor Payal Arora, Professor and Chair, Erasmus University, and an acclaimed digital anthropologist, digs into her deep study of the online lives of the global poor to arrive at a new perspective on the future of the internet. The next billion users will not be like the previous billion, and our speaker tells us why. In the process, she also addresses questions such as: Are the western projections and assumptions on how the internet should be used matched by how the internet is actually used in the emergent markets? Is it time to debunk some widely held myths about internet usage amongst those living in the Global South? Here she is in conversation with Professor Amit Nanavati, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Ahmedabad University.