Last Friday, I visited with my friends Walter Bender and Jim Gettys at the new headquarters of the One Laptop per Child Project – the… Read More »It’s cute. It’s orange. It’s got bunny ears. An update on the One Laptop Per Child project
Two quick Timbuktu posts – Timbuktu Chronicles, that is. Emeka Okafor’s brilliant blog is one of my every day reads: it keeps track of engineering,… Read More »SMS in Amharic… and near-independent of Ethiopia Telecom
When my friend Janet Haven came to visit a few weeks ago, she came armed with a pair of images. Produced by mapping experts at… Read More »Satellite Human Rights and the importance of imagery
I get a decent number of emails asking for opportunities to travel to Africa and work on technology projects. Since I haven’t worked with Geekcorps… Read More »Spend six months in Accra developing software…
Jon Garfunkel takes a close look at recent efforts by friends of detained Egyptian blogger Alaa Abd El Fateh – including by Global Voices editors… Read More »Googlebombs, or Googlebuys?
Inc. Magazine was kind enough to offer me some space to explore ideas about network neutrality – the idea that internet service providers should treat… Read More »Net Neutrality, and the hope the US could learn some lessons from African experience