Tech Trends: Come discuss at Digital Capital Week!
I will be discussing the tech trends from 2011 and looking forward to what 2012 holds for us with a fine group of panelists during DCWeek.
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In the Global Mirror, the #OWS 99% looks a lot like the 1%
Let me be clear - I have a difficult relationship with the Occupy movement.
More on bots saving the world at FastCompany
Alexa and I have another article up at FastCompany on social entrepreneurs and bots
Back from Dakar: How I built a Drupal 7 site in 7 days
Dakar. It’s hot. Lots of goats. In 2-5 years, it could be a major tech hub – sooner with some policy and infrastructure changes
The robots are coming
A colleague and I have the first of two articles posted on FastCompany - discussing the role of automation in job creation – and destruction
Privacy, Trust, NymWars, and Social Change
Social change takes trust.
Panels to support for an amazing SXSW 2012
It’s not to early to start making sure that your SXSW 2012 experience is fully awesome. How you ask? Why, by voting for awesome panels to attend.
Monitoring and Evaluation is broken. Let’s really break it.
One of the sad truths that emerged at the Technology Salon on ICTs and M&E was that failure in development is rarely about the project performance, but a...
So - What Next?
The events in London over the past few days have been deeply interesting in the wake of last month’s conversation on mobile and online activism during and af...
Vote for Economic Opportunity!
Thanks to amazing work by eBay’s TOP team and Gray Productions, we have not one, but two fab widgets to help you vote for innovative market-based solutions t...
July 14: Citizen Media Day?
If May 3rd gets to be World Press Freedom Day, then after today’s events, July 14 (in addition to already being Bastille Day) should be Citizen Media Day.
Online Activism after #ArabSpring : What’s Next?
So, I’ve been beating this drum for a while - oppressive governments are increasingly quick and intelligent in responding to protests that use mobile and new...
Celebrating World Press Freedom Day #wpfd with a linkdump
May 3 is World Press Freedom Day.
Rebuilding cell networks in Libya
A stark reminder of the challenges of using SMS and mobiles in human rights work
Apples that are neither green nor easy to digest.
“The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs”