Human Rights and Information Technology, Doing Well and Doing Good Historically, telephony has been highly regulated while the Internet has not. With the convergence of mobile telephony and the Internet, a host of regulatory and legal frameworks that manage spectrum and protect individual rights are being challenged for inadequacy. In the developed world, governments fighting [...]
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Tomato plants stacked 5 high. Potatoes floating in a hydroponic stew of nutrients. The urban farmer.
Urban farming on the next level. Urban farming at least on a small scale is an idea who’s time has come for sure. From Brooklyn to the Bay Area farming in the city has sprouted (sorry) up all over the place. There are even farmers markets I am told that sell only [...]
IT for the Bottom of the Pyramid
“For the first time in history, four billion people are connected,” By Juliette Terzieff In 2002, C. K. Prahalad and Stuart L. Hart released their book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, a controversial idea on targeting production to impoverished individuals and communities that sparked debates across corporate conference tables in the [...]
Middle America likes market based environmental solutions
What does a green consumer look like? Surely he drives a Prius, lives in a “blue” state, shops at Whole Foods and voted (and will vote for) Obama in the 2012 presidential election. This is the stereotype. But not everyone who cares about the environment falls into this category. Believe it or not there [...]
Samsung launches solar schools in Africa
Samsung Africa launched their portable, solar-powered classroom in Johannesburg in late October. As technology advances throughout the modern world, it brings change and growth opportunities for developing countries in the field of education that can unite multinational corporations and their stakeholders in a drive to turn possibilities into reality. By broadening Internet access and [...]
Samsung launches solar schools in Africa
Samsung Africa launched their portable, solar-powered classroom in Johannesburg in late October. As technology advances throughout the modern world, it brings change and growth opportunities for developing countries in the field of education that can unite multinational corporations and their stakeholders in a drive to turn possibilities into reality. By broadening Internet access and [...]
The mobile revolution: how smartphones are putting Sudan at the center of the world
I have to admit that I had some wireless issues in Omaha on a recent trip. That the author of this article is doing what he is doing in northern Sudan is remarkable. (From The Telegraph) At a dozen other archaeological sites across the country, it was the same story. Admittedly, I was the only [...]
Wikileaker? The FBI Wants Your Email
The long arm of the law reaches deep into cyberspace, secretly. The U.S. government has obtained a controversial type of secret court order to force Google Inc. and small Internet provider Sonic.net Inc. to turn over information from the email accounts of WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street [...]
China is an online tinderbox
With access to information on the web and an economic slowdown on the way, China may be in for some changes. The Party tries to contain the tempest that is brewing. China recently summoned the heads of various internet companies to Beijing to “discuss” how to deal with unwanted speech online. The Chinese Communist [...]
Unthink Rages Against the Facebook Machine
The last thing I need is another social network. But Facebook is not as useful (nor fun) as it used to be and Unthink MIGHT make some hay of this. (From Technology News) The creators of a new social network are challenging users to ditch Facebook and other networks to “unthink” and de-clutter with their [...]
