At Mobile Active they link to a new study which finally manage to get som quantitative data together on the use of broadband and cell phone technology among hispanics in the US. The major conclusions interestingly states: While Hispanics trail other U.S. populations in overall Internet access, they[...]
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September 22nd, 2009 - 9:46 pm § in Featured
Use of broadband and cell phone technology in diverse societies – still a lot to learn in organizing
Green energy, IT-developments and Kenyas drought
Next weeks will be spend on reading up on the drought and climate change issues in Kenya before excitingly going there in October with Global Change. People in the Northern part around Lake Turkana have experienced huge lack in rainfalls and over the summer the situation have worsened. The region is[...]
July 30th, 2009 - 12:18 am § in Featured
Analog blogging – a way to bridge the digital divide
Came across this great post earlier this spring, which makes us learn quite a lot about how information can be distributed despite lack of access to media outlets. Alfred Sirleaf runs a giant black board on a street of Monrovia, Liberia called the “Daily News”. Check it out: LiberiaR[...]
July 17th, 2009 - 2:16 pm § in Featured
Language as social justice, a goodbye to the anglo web and hello to diversified campaining
I recently had the chance to join in at the Open Translation Tools 09, where bloggers, translators and coders from across the world came together in Amsterdam for a discussion about the state of translation and which tools to wish for in the future. From Cambodia, India and South Africa projects sho[...]
June 18th, 2009 - 8:49 pm § in Featured
Anyone sceptical about Twitter – please go for #Iranelection
So then it came to us – a large scale social upheveal evolving with twitter as an al important medium of exchange and repporting. Yesterday we looked a little into blogs and youtube – today we continue with a note on twitter. The Iranian post-election rupture is my debut on twitter [...]
June 17th, 2009 - 9:23 pm § in Featured
Iran – the revolution will not be televised; but blogged!
Having friends with Iranian background and met people still living there, struggling and striving for change – the latest events in the aftermath of the elections are thrilling to say the least. No upheavel of such proportions have been seen since the revolution in 1979. In the context of this[...]
June 10th, 2009 - 11:52 am § in Featured
Turn the cameras on!
When the media yesterday carried the story that the Peruvian police reportedly murdered 40 indigenous Awajun activists in the Amazon, opening fire on their peaceful demonstration and dumping the bodies in a nearby river, the news stories all used the words “reportedly” and “accord[...]
May 22nd, 2009 - 8:28 am § in Featured
Ushahidi and the cell revolution
One of the most interesting projects about developing ways to include citizens in crisis reporting is definately Ushahidi. The principle is simply to bring together SMS-communication from citizens and reports in order to secure transparant ways of documenting conflicts in areas such as Uganda, Ken[...]
