It’s Raining OLPC TCOs (1 of 4)
Update: Hello readers from Alanna’s post on the OLPC at UNDispatch - You should check my original article on the OLPC TCO - written back in 2006 - over at O...
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Social Networks (not Facebook) and Development
World-wandering BoingBoing editor Xeni Jardin writes about a video from the “What Would the Poor Say: Debates in Aid Evaluation,” NYU conference, where Leona...
Social Networks (including Facebook) and Technology Transfer
In Social Networks (not Facebook) and Development I covered the relevance of local social networks and social capital / trust for successful, long-term commu...
A Tale of Two (or more) TCOs (3 of 4)
So based on your feedback, existing pilot data, existing TCO research and numbers, and limitations and suggestions from the TCO calculator tools themselves, ...
Beyond Crowdsourcing
I am weary of the term “crowdsourcing.” Now, I’m not against the concept
Collaboration and the XO Mesh
Time to mesh XOs Unless you're lucky enough to live within mesh range of many other XO users (or are part of an XO deployment or an innovative classroom pro...
Packets, Please: Government monitoring and #IranElection
Wired reminds us that we can rail against and complain about the intrusive, privacy-destroying and free-speech-threatening monitoring that Iran has been empl...
The answer for “I don’t get Twitter”
The next time somebody cracks wise about Twitter, points to the vast numbers of Twitter Orphan Accounts, or otherwise belittles it, I will point them to this...
Academic view on secure communication in repressive regimes
iRevolution has a good, academic-style breakdown of challenges and communication technologies for use to communicate securely within repressive regimes: htt...
ICT and the Iran Election
The Daily Dish reposts a call to action from Twitter: ALL internet & mobile networks are cut. We ask everyone in Tehran to go onto their rooftops and sho...
Mobiles vs. Computers in Education
This is my response to the current EduTech Debate on the role of mobiles Vs. computers in education. Join the conversation and disagree with me! I’m sure I...
Of Engineers and Kings: The Humanitarian Technology Challenge
"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax-- Of cabbages--and kings-- And why the sea is boiling hot...
XP on the XO, round three.
Who's using XP? With a surprising lack of fanfare, OLPCNews recently revealed that Sugar is beating out Windows XP in XO deployments: Apparently the convers...
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...
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...