E-Tech Notes 2004
He and his company are doing a "Wireless Roadshow to teach local technology NGOs how wireless technologies can be used to bring Internet and intranet connectivity to those parts of the world not...
View ArticleSmart Mobs
Howard Rheingold's Smart Mobs blog dedicated to subjects stemming from his book of the same name. He and other bloggers report on various social/technology items here. Continue reading →
View ArticleGrameen Technology Fund
Grameen Bank started out as a micro-credit organization in Bangladesh, making small loans to poor women so that they could start businesses.... From their website:"Grameen Foundation USA is empowering...
View ArticleDoors of Perception
Doors always has some interesting links on design and social innovation. They cover sustainability, health care, social justice, economics, all staring from a design point of view. Continue reading →
View ArticleCivil Technologies: The Values of Nonprofit ICT Use
There's a new report out from the Social Science Research Council's Information Technology and International Cooperation program, "Civil Technologies: The Values of Nonprofit ICT Use," by Ken Jordan...
View ArticleA novel idea: repair instructions
Given how pervasive the idea of planned obsolescence is, I’m always on the lookout for counterexamples — cases where a company actually wants you to fix what you bought from them, and keep it longer,...
View ArticleIdle speculation on the shan zhai and open fabrication
Strategy & Business magazine has an interesting article on the shan zhai manufacturers in China at the moment. It’s the first business press article I’ve seen in the US that takes a relatively...
View ArticleTraceroute Fun
The students in my Understanding Networks class had a short assignment this past week, to run a couple dozen traceroutes, and do visualizations with the results. A few interesting points came out of...
View ArticleOpen Source Hardware Definition v.1.0 released
Last year, along with other members of the Arduino team and colleagues from several other open source hardware makers, I attended the Open Hardware Summit in New York. We began working on a definition...
View ArticleThat Inequality Thing
This is an open question to my friends and colleagues who have more experience in economics than I do. I’m trying to understand the factors behind accelerating economic inequality. I have no formal...
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