A journalist recently asked me what had surprised me most about the success of Global Voices. There have been a lot of surprises with this… Read More »Rising Voices, TED, Pop!Tech and the challenges of innovating… everywhere
I’m glad I went to Davos, some years back. I went twice, back in the days when I was running Geekcorps and Davos seemed like… Read More »My conversation with Kofi
During the conflict between Russia and Georgia this past summer, my friend Evgeny Morozov decided to study the dynamics of “cyberwar” by becoming a partisan.… Read More »Install a trojan for Israel? Uh, no thanks.
It’s hard to look forward to something as difficult and sad as Medicine Sans Frontieres top ten list of global humanitarian crises. I noted last… Read More »MSF’s top ten – how disconnection affects public health
There’s lots of business and economics news to be angry about, if you choose to be angry. But one story in particular has my attention,… Read More »Bribery is a two-way street
Yesterday afternoon, I sat in on a discussion at a Berkman Center conference about the role of YouTube in electoral politics. It was never explicitly… Read More »Citizen video and windows on the world