As Cynthia Enloe has pointed out, the personal is not only political but also international (1989). This century, in an increasingly web-dependent yet unevenly distributed world in terms of internet access, know-how and want-to, this nexus has taken on not only global but also digitised and cyberspatial dimensions. In the Global North at least, everyday life on the ground (‘offl ine’) and in cyberspace (‘online’) have become inseparable, to the point that many of today’s youth regard

internet access as a right (BBC News 2010). And recent statistics show that increasing numbers of people, especially in the Global South, are accessing the internet more and more via mobile phones (Internet World Stats 2012; Millward 2012). In schools and universities in the internet’s heartlands learning and teaching have gone online as well while corporations and intergovernmental organisations are putting computer literacy and internet access high on their business, international cooperation and development agendas.