Digital Citizenship in the Global South: “Cool Stuff for Other People”?

Technology, and information and communication technology (ICT) in particular, holds out great hope for disabled people in the Global South. The role of ICTs in solving complex problems of exclusion and scarcity has been touted as central to the transformation of people’s lives. We agree that ICTs hold great promise in this context, but we show in this chapter how structures of exclusion still operate but may be invisibilised through the hype associated with new technologies. Digital citizenships may still be constrained by realities of inequitable access, but rhetorics of inclusion may obscure, and hence exacerbate, inequity.