One of the consequences (intended or otherwise) of the TED Global conferencein Arusha, Tanzania last month is that many of the bloggers I read regularly… Read More »Incremental infrastructure, or how mobile phones might wire Africa
I’m giving a talk on activist uses of mobile phones in the developing world later this month. Prior to the talk, the organizers have asked… Read More »Draft paper on mobile phones and activism
The ongoing war in northern Uganda is one of the worst conflicts one rarely hears about. Jan Egeland, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, describes… Read More »Just how crazy is Joseph Kony?
Update: The interface to search the PeopleFinder database is up. According to our friends at Salesforce.com, there are now 87,000 records in the database, all… Read More »Recovery 2.0 – thoughts on what worked and failed on PeopleFinder so far
My friend Brian at Black Star Journal has an excellent critical response to my post a few days back expressing frustration with today’s Live 8… Read More »Africa’s a continent. Not a crisis.
I got interested in gers about ten minutes before I first landed in Mongolia. As the plane descended to the Ulaanbaatar airport, I saw green… Read More »Behold the Power of String