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Book Review: Mythologie du Portable (Laurence Allard)

In an age where the iPhone and similar devices have become staple accessories of an always connected global citizen, it is high time to track the origins of the mobile phone, its emergence as a crucial tool for economic...
By Catalina Iorga on 09/20/10 Comments Off on Book Review: Mythologie du Portable (Laurence Allard)

A Language of All Languages?

Technologies have always appeared that have served to progressively make the world smaller — from ships, rail and air travel to electricity, the telegraph, telephone, etc. At the same time, they have made worlds larger, for individuals could explore...
By Ashiq Khondker on 09/13/10 2
A Rise of a Polish Silicon Valley?

A Rise of a Polish Silicon Valley?

The project, titled “Multimedia City,” began operations in the Nowy Sącz national center of innovation and focused on multimedia and information systems. The Multimedia City's strategic goal is to become one of the tenth most innovative centers in the...
By Michal Kielbasa on 09/11/10 Comments Off on A Rise of a Polish Silicon Valley?

The Coming Codec Storm

Perhaps you’ve heard of the new < video > tag in HTML5? The first major new version of HTML since HTML 4 in 1997 (how many Internet years are there in a dog year, anyway?) contains several new tags...
By John Haltiwanger on 05/05/10 Comments Off on The Coming Codec Storm

Towards Digital Inclusion: Gathering, Digesting and Creating ICTs

‘Problems are not a monopoly of the South and solutions are not a monopoly of the North’. Particularly the latter part of this quote struck me, since within many studies on developmental aid and ICT4D (Information and Communication Technology...
By ellen sluis on 02/16/10 8

digitally distributed newspapers

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...
By Bas Bisseling on 02/13/10 9

Professional networking sites and social-economic status comparison

“Dan was apparent fifty plus, a little paunchy and stubbled. He had raccoon-mask bags under his eyes and he slumped listlessly. As I approached, I pinged his Whuffie and was startled to see that it had dropped to nearly...
By Maarten Hoogvliet on 01/23/10 12

Matthew Fuller: Search Engine Alternatives

The search market is a multi-billion dollar industry, and given such potential to capitalize there is a large window of opportunity with a vast range of possibilities for the future of search. The mythology of the search engine is...
By Chris Castiglione on 11/15/09 1
4 Minute Thesis Video on the TEDx Amsterdam Site

4 Minute Thesis Video on the TEDx Amsterdam Site

I posted a 4-minute video which summarizes some of the main points from my thesis on the music industr(ies), "Copy What Can't Be Sold; and Sell What Can't Be Copied".
By Chris Castiglione on 11/10/09 Comments Off on 4 Minute Thesis Video on the TEDx Amsterdam Site

Cell Phone Apps and Scaling the Local

Cell phones applications for development might be what sociologist Saskia Sassen calls countergeographies – they piggy back on mainstream infrastructure produced by a global corporate economy, but for their own aims, including political struggles (or crime). It helps to...
By Morgan Currie on 10/17/09 Comments Off on Cell Phone Apps and Scaling the Local

One Laptop Per Child; Is That Enough?

Isn’t it ironic that we’re trying to reduce the digital inequality and poverty with ICT, while it is the ICT that caused and augments this digital divide? We’re using technology to solve the problems it has caused…
By ellen sluis on 10/13/09 Comments Off on One Laptop Per Child; Is That Enough?

Twitter and the Rise of Impersonal Communication

Before the rise of twitter there already existed older -digital- communication devices that shared the same idea: short and fast communication between people. Those were mainly writing, faxing, emailing, chatting and later sms text messaging. In the case of...
By Charlotte van Brakel on 10/07/09 2

Wikipedia assignment: Is ‘WikiTrust’ the next step towards a more reliable online-encyclopaedia?

Once again the online-encyclopaedia Wikipedia is in the spotlight of attention; after years of various forms of praise, critique and academic studies – in which several different and overlapping aspects of Wikipedia have been discussed – the encyclopaedia has...
By Sander Leegwater on 09/20/09 1

Book review of “Against The Machine – Being Human In The Age Of The Electronic Mob” by Lee Siegel

Lee Siegel was born in New York in 1957 and has Bachelor, Master and Master of Philosophy degrees from Columbia University. While working as a staff writer at The New Republic, an American magazine on politics and the arts,...
By Maarten Hoogvliet on 09/17/09 Comments Off on Book review of “Against The Machine – Being Human In The Age Of The Electronic Mob” by Lee Siegel

Chasing Away Ghosts: a Review of Brian Rotman’s Becoming Beside Ourselves

Q: “In the Far North, where there is snow, all bears are white. New Land is in the Far North and there is always snow there. What color are the bears there?” A: “I don’t know; I’ve seen a...
By Morgan Currie on 09/14/09 1

Chitchat with Vision’s Website Editor

Davis Weddi joined the New Vision in 1996 as a freelance journalist. His first story was placed on the front page of The New Vision on 1st April 1996. It was a fool’s day story of vampires attacking travellers...
By Ali Balunywa on 05/04/09 Comments Off on Chitchat with Vision’s Website Editor

The New Vision Resource Centre and ICT

Godfrey Malime is the chief librarian at the New Vision. He joined the organization in 1992 as a trainee librarian. He went through the ranks to get to his current position. He graduated with a Bachelors degree in librarianship...
By Ali Balunywa on 04/29/09 Comments Off on The New Vision Resource Centre and ICT

What will 2009 mean for Negroponte’s OLPC?

For the second year the One Laptop Per Child Foundation (OLPC) has run a ‘Give 1 Get 1 Free’ program (otherwise termed G1G1). In lead to the holiday season consumers in North America (this year they included Europe) could...
By Ben White on 01/19/09 3

Chip music and the 8bit demoscene – Hacking, Open Source and Remixing

Anders set up a Commodore to give us a nice blue and white powerpoint straight from the machines memory. I have been wondering if this was an act of maximum open source or not… Chipmusic and the 8bit demoscene...
By Rosa Menkman on 12/15/08 Comments Off on Chip music and the 8bit demoscene – Hacking, Open Source and Remixing