ICT4Dev Reading List
Here's a hastily-constructed Amazon store of some of the books and essays I've read which provide great insight and contrarian positions to modern developmen...
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Update on Guatemala, Twitter arrests, and citizen media
As always, Ethan Zuckerman brings together all the threads surrounding the Guatemala protests, including information about the arrested Twitter user and some...
Guatemala and Citizen Media
You might have heard about the posthumously released video by a Guatemalan lawyer accusing his president of assassination in the event of his death, for not ...
Blue-skying Mobile Apps: Common Forms
I missed the recent Technology Salon on Mobiles for Development (I was kind of busy with Global Youth Service Day), and was already scheduled to make it to t...
After the SMS honeymoon? (Updated)
Check out some updates – props to @MobileActive! During the last breakout at the Mobile for Change (#m4change in twitter, a good writeup by Development Seed...
In Defense of Twitter and #swineflu
Everyone from XKCD to NPR has been blaming Twitter for spreading panic about the Swine Flu: Who knew that swine flu could also infect Twitter? Yet this i...
Twittering about a Revolution
There’s been a lot of noise about the role of Twitter in the recent Moldova protests.
Micro Telcos - Business Models for Rural Access?
Can Urban Connectivity Go Rural? This month’s Technology Salon approached last-mile connectivity problems from an entrepreneurship standpoint. What are the ...
What’s Next
Tonight’s <a href=”https://intlrel.meetup.com/76/calendar/9824817”“>ICT4D meetup</a> asks the question, “What’s Next?” While it’s always risky t...
A revolution you can run with : FrontLineSMS on the OLPC \o/
By attaching a computer (Linux, Mac, or Windows) to a cell phone with a data cable and installing his (free, open source) software, FrontlineSMS, that comput...
IP4D
Intellectual Property is an oddball in international development
Another path forward for the One Laptop Per Child Project
I’ve long been an advocate for selling the XO commercially or at least following a Grameen Village Phone style approach to create OLPC XO-centric small busin...
Let’s get together and mesh alright (One Laptop in Jamaica)
Jamaican ICT4D practitioners and teachers see the XO in action</div> OLPC and F/LOSS enthusiast Dr
Cory Doctorow, or how I learned to start worrying and hate IP regulation
Sometimes, I lie awake at night and worry about copyright. I then start worrying if this makes me irreconcilably weird. </param></param></pa...
Mobiles Vs Computers
Are Mobile Phones the Winner? February’s Technology Salon was on the (false) dichotomy of mobiles versus computers in development