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I really enjoyed reading your post HJ, and myself, had too many thoughts which turned into a post. I asked HJ, a friend and activist from Monterrey (Mexico), about his insights on the OLPC project, specifically on its possible impact in Mexico. He mentioned that Carlos Slim spent 70 million for 250,000 XOs, which will [...] Jerusalem is the everlasting city of layers. Inhabited for over 3000 years, it is a hodgepodge of different cultures and religions from around the world. This post describes the prolonged rivalry, rarely written about, between Ethiopian and Coptic communities in Jerusalem. It is believed that Coptic presence existed in Jerusalem since the 9th century AD. [...] The Kaywa Reader is a 2D Barcode Reader to install on your mobile phone. Once installed, you can scan 2D Barcodes and the content of the 2D Barcode is then immediately resolved on the phone. This idea is not new at all, semacodes have been around for a while. What I really liked about this [...] “Will it rain today?” Apparently mInfo, a Shanghai-based mobile search startup, is working on a service that will be able to answer such a question on our phones. They intend to understand natural language queries inputed by users on their mobile phones, and to deliver highly relevant answers. The service allows you to retrieve search [...] I’ve finally made some edits, and fluffed up a nice page for my thesis paper. I figured that at least the background & research parts could be useful for someone. Just as others were kind enough to place their research online. Just spreading the love:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â [...] Mobile phones hold the potential to empower local communities in the developing world, lowering the entrance barrier and providing innovative services, especially when linked to the web. Indigi-Net uses the mobile phone network to its advantage, realizing two important points. The first acknowledges the fact that most tourists nowadays travel with their mobile phones. More [...] Even though many villages in the developing world lack basic amenities, where people live through a vicious cycle, suspended in between life and death on a daily basis, technology can still have unexpectedly useful applications. Especially in locations which lack land-line telecommunications, you see more and more people carrying and sharing cellphones. “A few [...] Is giving soap to villagers in India a thoughtless act? But is it okay to give money to adult beggars? By handing out sweets am I actually helping create more cavities in a child’s teeth? Instead of candy, how about giving meat? I mean, eating meat is a luxury in villages and deprived communities. But [...] I was very excited to read the following post by Ethan Zuckerman on Global Souls and xenophilia, the attraction to foreign peoples, cultures, or customs. He argues that isolationist nationalism holds grave economically suicidal circumstances in this increasingly globalized world. The Global Souls, he describes, are best placed to create solutions to global problems, to [...] My submitted essay to the New York Times – “Win a Trip With Nick Kristof” Competition: Have you ever chosen your seat on a bus, according to where you would be harmed least if a suicide bomber decided to detonate? [...] |
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