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Deep Local

Growing Roots for the Global Village

Globalisation is renowned for its de-localising effects, as trans-national business and policies erode local cultures and harness them for their own ends.

But, far from extinguishing locality, globalisation as a process also invites the creation of new kinds of localness.

In this process of producing new localities the global is constantly being reformulated as a summary of singular new localities.

The spread of telecenters, and urban digital culture projects are forceful examples of recent experiments in trans-locality.

On the one hand, the adaptation of digital and other media to local contexts serve urgent needs : here it is decided among others who will and will not participate in digital cultures and in what ways.

But these projects also provide opportunities to unearth fixed assumptions, and propose forms of situated activism and embedded innovation, as opposed to lab-based forms of "research and development.

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