Fighting poverty through connecting people [Fast Company]
Rey Ramsey’s mission of social change starts with the home and leads to the Web. Read full story
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The power of design [Fast Company]
The June 2005 issue of Fast Company is entirely devoted to the design. Click on the title of this post to get a full overview or read one of the selected features below. – Strategy by design (IDEO) – The…
Microsoft uses anthropology to better target small businesses [Fortune Magazine]
[…] There is a certain correspondence between Microsoft’s research agenda and the work of the old-time anthropologists, many of whom were funded by colonial governments that needed to understand their native subjects in order to rule them more effectively. The…
Anthropology at Intel [U.S. News & World Report]
At Intel, which wasn’t used to having a direct relationship with its end users, the challenges for an anthropologist were not simple. Read full story
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Critisising “The World is Flat”
Thomas Friedman’s influential book The World is Flat has been strongly critisised for its bias, simplicity and sloppiness: – The Daily Telegraph (Robert Hanks) – The Daily Telegraph (Noel Malcolm) – The Economist – The Guardian – The Hindu –…
Sun Microsystems “Participation Age” event at U.N.
The Participation Age is all about access, built on a model of networked human beings who share, interact, and solve problems, via telephone, internet, and a myriad of other ways of connecting. Their participation creates ideas, information, opportunities, and value-social…
When the consumer is in control [BBC]
The people who make films, TV and music are trying to work out how to survive in a digital era where the consumer is in control. This was the predominant theme at a conference on the future of digital content…
Milan is the most wired-up city of Europe [ANSA]
The city of Milan is the most wired-up city in Europe, but also Barcelona is very high up in the list, a survey carried out by Milan Chamber of Commerce shows. Read full story
Frontline online
Frontline is the name of America’s best investigative journalism TV programme. It is produced by PBS and fifty of its in-depth reports can now be viewed in streaming video. (Scrolling over the title brings up a short summary, clicking on…
A mobile tale of three cities [International Herald Tribune]
With more than 1 billion cellphones in circulation around the world, the questions of how, when and why people use them have turned from matters of curiosity and conversation into serious subjects of academic research. Read full story
Technology that imitates nature [The Economist]
Biomimetics: Engineers are increasingly taking a leaf out of nature’s book when looking for solutions to design problems. Read full story
Grey matter, blue matter | Modelling the brain [The Economist]
The first serious attempt to build a computer model of the brain has just begun. Read full story
The future of European e-government [The Guardian]
Last week was not a great time to unveil a new pan-European initiative. Yet the programme is an important source of funding for IT-based innovations in public services. It is aimed not at putting services online (most already are)…
Thomas L. Friedman: hot and hotter in Bangalore [The New York Times]
Bangalore is entering a mature new phase as a technology centre, starting to produce its own high-tech products, research, venture capital firms and start-ups. “The ecosystem for innovation is now starting to be created here,” said Nandan Nilekani, the chief…
Taking IT global
TakingITGlobal.org is a global online community, providing youth with inspiration to make a difference, a source of information on issues, opportunities to take action, and a bridge to get involved locally, nationally and globally. TakingITGlobal – which works with UN…
Rethinking the identity of Cittadellarte, the foundation of Michelangelo Pistoletto
During the last five months, I have been working intensively with Michelangelo Pistoletto and the staff of his foundation, Cittadellarte, on a clearer definition of Cittadellarte’s core identity, which had become a little diffuse after several years of fast growth…
The relaunch of the Lisbon Agenda and the launch of the 7th Framework Programme on RTD [Bridges, the OST publication]
The main topic in March 2005 was a mid-term review of the ongoing Lisbon agenda, which could lead to a reform of the whole process. It was Europe’s aim to become the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in…
John Thackara: “Interaction Ivrea morphing”
In his June Doors of Perception e-mail newsletter, John Thackara comments on the move of Interaction Design Institute Ivrea to Milan: “A brutal policy change by its main sponsor, Telecom Italia, has forced Interaction Design Institute Ivrea to move to…
John Thackara’s “In The Bubble”
We’re filling up the world with technology and devices, but we’ve lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In…