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MULTICULTURALISM CAN HAVE NEGATIVE IMPACT ON TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT
Media Lab Europe has introduced ‘Mosaic Society’, the fifth in its series of Open Houses, which explored the role of technology and invention in supporting a multilingual, multicultural society that strives for integration and sustainability. One of the speakers, Dr. Norman Lewis, director of technology research at Freeserve challenged the future of the multicultural ‘mosaic’, arguing that “technology is too often being presented as a substitute for real social progress both here and in the developing world. By placing IT on a pedestal and presenting it as a solution to the world’s problems, we are setting up a development agenda that will fail to deliver.” www.medialabeurope.org