Wearables for something good: aid, dataveillance and the production of children’s digital bodies

Abstract

The article contributes to the emergent critical literature on the creation of data in aid by exploring how the use of digital technologies creates corresponding ‘digital bodies’. The article argues that dataveillance is becoming a central practice of aid. To explore this proposition, the article interrogates the making of children’s digital bodies as objects of intervention through an examination of the development of ‘Khushi baby’, a wearable digital necklace for tracking infants immunization records in India.

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