Foggy day – clear vision?
View from the UN Building on the Rhein in Bonn. The UNU is trying to clarify its vision and strategy for the use of technology in learning – during a two day workshop.
View from the UN Building on the Rhein in Bonn. The UNU is trying to clarify its vision and strategy for the use of technology in learning – during a two day workshop.
Mark Surman is speaking to the City of Toronto about how openness can help create a better city — much in the same way that it helped create a better Internet. In his truly open ways, he has been blogging about it, and has posted his speaker notes and draft slides online for comment. Most […]
Pratham Books/ Read India is one of those inspiring projects that India seems able to generate more easily than many other transition economies: cool business sense and entrepreneurship hit a social cause. Gautam John and his colleagues have managed to squeeze the publication costs of educational books to an absolute minimum, producing lots and lots […]
My friend Rishab Ghosh occasionally invites me to moonlight with the Collaborative Creativity Group at the United Nations University MERIT. Most recently I participated in designing the Wikipedia survey, which is coming to an end as I post this. Nobody likes to fill out online surveys, but Wikipedia gets an incredible 65,000 hits per second, […]
Andrew writes about legal wranglings over telecommunication services in South Africa. For those who don’t know, some time ago this developing country decided that exorbitant pricing of bandwidth is a good strategy to support social and economic development. And our Minister of Communication is sticking to that strategy, by appealing the ruling that Value Added […]