Tatenda Chatikobo
Biographic Data
| ID | 6805936 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tatenda Chatikobo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tatenda |
| FAMILY NAME | Chatikobo |
| SIGNATURE | CHATIKOBO T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2936-7415 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Critique of the Emancipatory Promise of Open-Source Software in Digital Health in LMICs
Digital health innovation through open-source software (OSS) is often presented as a critical response to the health system crises that low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) face due to inadequate public health infrastructure. Proponents of OSS argue that it offers a more sustainable, economical, and democratic approach to developing health solutions in underresourced contexts. Drawing on the experiences of software developers in East Africa w…
Digital Health Data Regulation in a Neoliberal Era
Data-driven health technologies hold the potential to improve healthcare delivery. Yet they also facilitate the large-scale extraction and commodification of sensitive health data through a phenomenon often described as ‘digital health surveillance capitalism.’ This model has largely gone unchecked, as prevailing regulatory approaches prioritise privacy and security while neglecting broader societal harms arising from datafication. These societal…
Digital health for shared value
The promise of digitalisation in achieving Universal Health Coverage in postcolonial contexts is undermined by the realities of insufficiently resourced public healthcare systems. In response, private health insurance is often seen as essential to healthcare delivery. The provision of this private health insurance is increasingly mediated through digital infrastructures, with providers leaning into the promise of data-driven behavioural economics…
Regulating digital health in the Global South
The question of how digital health is regulated has become increasingly important within debates on technology, inequality and global health. While digital health is frequently celebrated for its capacity to expand access, build resilient systems and advance equity, scholars have raised critical concerns about its role in reproducing asymmetries of power. The potential for reproducing rather than curbing inequality is particularly relevant for th…
Colonialism in the new digital health agenda
The advancement of digital technologies has stimulated immense excitement about the possibilities of transforming healthcare, especially in resource-constrained contexts. For many, this rapid growth presents a ‘digital health revolution’. While this is true, there are also dangers that the proliferation of digital health in the global south reinforces existing colonialities. Underpinned by the rhetoric of modernity, rationality and progress, many…
United in diversity? Digital differences and inequalities within a South African rural community
Digital inequalities in Africa have been explored in terms of dimensions such as gender, age, education, socio-economic status, language, ability/disability etc. In the present study, we draw on qualitative research emphasising digital differences within Dwesa, a rural community on the Wild Coast of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. For the past decade and a half, this has been the site of extensive ethnographic and ICT-for-development r…
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United in diversity? Digital differences and inequalities within a South African rural community
Digital inequalities in Africa have been explored in terms of dimensions such as gender, age, education, socio-economic status, language, ability/disability etc. In the present study, we draw on qualitative research emphasising digital differences within Dwesa, a rural community on the Wild Coast of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. For the past decade and a half, this has been the site of extensive ethnographic and ICT-for-development r…
Colonialism in the new digital health agenda
The advancement of digital technologies has stimulated immense excitement about the possibilities of transforming healthcare, especially in resource-constrained contexts. For many, this rapid growth presents a ‘digital health revolution’. While this is true, there are also dangers that the proliferation of digital health in the global south reinforces existing colonialities. Underpinned by the rhetoric of modernity, rationality and progress, many…
A Critique of the Emancipatory Promise of Open-Source Software in Digital Health in LMICs
Digital health innovation through open-source software (OSS) is often presented as a critical response to the health system crises that low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) face due to inadequate public health infrastructure. Proponents of OSS argue that it offers a more sustainable, economical, and democratic approach to developing health solutions in underresourced contexts. Drawing on the experiences of software developers in East Africa w…
Digital Health Data Regulation in a Neoliberal Era
Data-driven health technologies hold the potential to improve healthcare delivery. Yet they also facilitate the large-scale extraction and commodification of sensitive health data through a phenomenon often described as ‘digital health surveillance capitalism.’ This model has largely gone unchecked, as prevailing regulatory approaches prioritise privacy and security while neglecting broader societal harms arising from datafication. These societal…
Digital health for shared value
The promise of digitalisation in achieving Universal Health Coverage in postcolonial contexts is undermined by the realities of insufficiently resourced public healthcare systems. In response, private health insurance is often seen as essential to healthcare delivery. The provision of this private health insurance is increasingly mediated through digital infrastructures, with providers leaning into the promise of data-driven behavioural economics…
Regulating digital health in the Global South
The question of how digital health is regulated has become increasingly important within debates on technology, inequality and global health. While digital health is frequently celebrated for its capacity to expand access, build resilient systems and advance equity, scholars have raised critical concerns about its role in reproducing asymmetries of power. The potential for reproducing rather than curbing inequality is particularly relevant for th…
Digital health (5 works) · ICT in Developing Communities (4 works) · COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing (3 works) · Health care (3 works) · Inequality (3 works) · Public health (3 works) · Global health (2 works) · Global Health and Surgery (2 works) · Health Policy (2 works) · Political science (2 works)