Dorothea Kleine

Professor of Human Geography and Co-Director of the Institute for Global Sustainable Development, Digital Technologies, Data and Innovation (DDI) group, University of Sheffield

Professor Dorothea Kleine’s research investigates sustainable human development, global justice, and the role of digital technologies in making progress towards these aims. She has published widely on the potential and the ethical challenges of the use of ICTs in sustainable development in both the global South and North, focusing in particular on the perspective, agency and creativity of marginalised communities. She is well-known for her theoretical work, proposing the choice framework to apply the capabilities approach to digital development, as laid out in ‘Technologies of Choice?’ (MIT Press). Much of her work is participatory and co-produced with community organisations and other non-academic stakeholders.

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