Monthly Archives: February 2010

Towards Digital Inclusion: Gathering, Digesting and Creating ICTs

ellen sluis | 16 February 2010, 8:54 pm | 8 comments | tags: , , , , , , ,

‘Problems are not a monopoly of the South and solutions are not a monopoly of the North’[1]. Particularly the latter part of this quote struck me, since within many studies on developmental aid and ICT4D (Information and Communication Technology for Development) prevails the idea that the solutions will come from the north, that is, from the developed countries.


Google Buzz adoption in Amsterdam

Bas Bisseling | 13 February 2010, 10:45 pm | 6 comments | tags: , ,

iPhone BuzzAmsterdam is picking up the new Google Buzz social networking tool that was announced last week. Google has linked Buzz to Latitude as well (depending on the privacy settings). This means that people can see where their friends and what they’re doing. It’s interesting that not only your friends are visible, but all Buzz users nearby. This opens a…


digitally distributed newspapers

Bas Bisseling | 13 February 2010, 10:33 pm | 9 comments | tags: , ,

e-paper
LG Digital has announced that a full A3 sized e-paper that will be introduced in April. The novelty in LG’s latest marvel, is that it makes the physical distribution and the every day hustle of printing millions of newspapers obsolete. The Gutenberg era of mechanical reproduction is changing into digital reproduction. The smell of ink and the…


Glitch Studies Manifesto

Rosa Menkman | 03 February 2010, 11:56 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , ,

glitch studies manifesto Live ft Goto80A glitch is an unintended break of (one of) the many flows within a technological system. It is a wonderful and frightening interruption that shifts a technology away from its ordinary form and discourse. For a moment I am shocked, lost, in awe, asking myself what this other utterance is, how was it created. Is it perhaps …a glitch? But…