Mobile phones and global communication
The spread of mobile phones across the developing world has been extremely rapid in the past few years (e.g. 4X increase between 2001-2005 in Africa). The BBC reports on the annual Information Economy...
View ArticleEthan Zuckerman’s Propositions for Successful Development Innovations
Ethan Zuckerman writes about innovation in developing countries in Innovating from constraint and suggests seven “rules” or propositions about how innovation proceeds in the developing world. He...
View ArticleFailFaire
That people need to learn in order to build a better world is a key idea motivating a lot of resilience projects, and learning requires failures that you can learn from. In New York Times Stephanie...
View ArticleUntangling the Environmentalist’s Paradox
My colleagues are I recently published a paper in BioScience, Untangling the Environmentalist’s Paradox: Why Is Human Well-being Increasing As Ecosystem Services Degrade? The paper originated from the...
View ArticleToyama’s myths of information technology and development
Dr. Kentaro Toyama, a researcher in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, presents 10 myths of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in development that persist...
View Articlebriefly noted: disruptive technological change
1) The Atlantic on the Digital Underground of North Korea 2) New York Times Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software about innovations in AI that allow textual analysis of large sets...
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