For the past decade or so, there’s been a movement to bring computers, telephones and other “information and communication technology” into developing nations to increase… Read More »Jennifer Bussell on eGovernment, corruption and governance
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
Firoze Manji from Fahamu and Pambazuka News gave the Fill the Gap conference a thorough overview of the current crisis in Kenya. He was last… Read More »Fill the Gap II, and an update on the Kenyan situation
My 2008 is off to a running start, with my first transatlantic flight in the second week of the new year. I’m in the Netherlands… Read More »Fill the GAP – Netherlands
I’ve had the date on my calendar for weeks now. I’d meant to get up early in the morning and get one of the first… Read More »Go buy an OLPC XO laptop. Er…, I mean, go buy two OLPC XO laptops…
Is it enough to come together and talk about important scientific, social and technical issues? That’s a question that Andrew Zolli, curator of Pop!Tech has… Read More »Pop!Tech: Acceleration and managing AIDS