Brother, can you spare a billion?
For a little more than a year now, I’ve been carrying in my wallet a $500 Zimbabwean bearer cheque, an odd form of currency designed… Read More »Brother, can you spare a billion?
...My heart's In Accra
Ethan Zuckerman’s online home, since 2003
Social lions, fiscally-literate mobile phones
One of the best parts of this gathering at Microsoft is not the cool new toys coming from Microsoft research, but the ideas presented by… Read More »Social lions, fiscally-literate mobile phones
Visualizing Social Networks… in Excel
In the spirit of attending OPCs – “other people’s conferences”, conferences where you’re invited, but not part of the demographic/professional group the conference is aimed… Read More »Visualizing Social Networks… in Excel
Unusual collaborations at Creative Capital
I’ve spent three days hanging out at the Creative Capital retreat at Williams College. Creative Capital is an arts development organization that supports artists both… Read More »Unusual collaborations at Creative Capital
Artists and superheroes
Put eighty artists in a room and you’re going to get some overlapping ideas. One of the ideas to emerge in the last few presentations… Read More »Artists and superheroes
Incremental ideas: solar-powered GSM towers
I wrote a bit last year about the idea of “incremental infrastructure“. Basically, the idea is that there might be a future for infrastructure projects… Read More »Incremental ideas: solar-powered GSM towers