UR(uguay) Doing it Right: CEIBAL’s numbers, miracles, and measurement
Miguel didn’t dive deep into cost calculations during his TEDxBuenosAires talk, but this seems like awfully low numbers. I am curious to see how they are co...
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Another OLPC TCO study
1:1 Computing costs are a difficult thing to nail down, because there are so many factors that go into it. I worked with GeSCI’s Roxanna Bassi to create a w...
Soccer for Social Change
One of the competitions we run over at Ashoka's Changemakers is now up for voting - it's focused on the use of Football (Soccer) for social change. The fina...
Innovation and Cell Phones: It’s not happening at Apple
Or Google. And certaintly not at any of the carriers. The real innovation and hacking is on the streets of Ghana, India, China, Egypt and more, as Jan Chip...
The Missing Middle
Too big for microfinance, but not big enough for traditional investment? Perhaps the ideas that come out of this can fix that. In case you don't follow the ...
I Write Like…
I guess I shouldn’t be too terribly surprised? I write likeCory DoctorowI Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!
Maptivism is my new favorite portmanteau
Through the magic of technology, this post at CrissCrossed.net from January just popped up on my radar, covering examples of using the one-two visual and dat...
Hardware, Easyware, and Flow
Is hardware hacking becoming more accessible in the development context? A positive psychologist friend once explained the concept of (watch as I butcher th...
Social Change - to go, please
Cross-posted at the FrontlineSMS Blog The recent Technology Salons have been on local and sectoral implementations of mobile technology in development. Mob...
Development using SMS, not SMS4Dev
Cross-posted at TechnologySalon.org Where the last SMS4D Technology Salon reminded us of the unique gift of mobile technologies to be based where there impa...
Tech4Dev: What’s in your backpack?
Inveno’s ICT_Works blog recently advertised their awesome addition to the ICT4D world - a solid toolkit to carry to the field. I made a much lower-tech pers...
The Secret Sauce in Technology For Development isn’t the Tech.
Ushahidi’s Patrick Meier has a fantastic graph of deployment time for Ushahidi’s amazing crisis-mapping solution (which has been deployed for such diverse p...
Put your technology where your solution will be
The Technology Salon on SMS4D covered a lot of ground in a few hours, but the reverberating sentiment was the power of mobile technology at the local/regiona...
Ubuntu 10: Worth the wait
Just a quick note: Ubuntu 10 totally rocks. Better digital video and audio support (via HDMI and toslink) than Windows 7, slicker than Mac OSX with a great ...
Going Nuts over the Value of Local Production
For some background, I highly recommend Alanna Shaikh’s post here: https://aidwatchers.com/2010/04/the-plumpy%E2%80%99nut-dustup/ and follow-up here: https:/...