interesting to see the digital divide happening here in the US as well!
the NTIA released the first national broadband map last Thursday, showing several areas of the country without access to highspeed internet that many of us take for granted.
link to the article on PCWorld
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
state department addressing internet freedom
from the NY Times article describing Hillary Clinton's speech today at GW...
"The State Department plans to finance programs like circumvention services, which enable users to evade Internet firewalls, and training for human rights workers on how to secure their e-mail from surveillance or wipe incriminating data from cellphones if they are detained by the police. The department has also inaugurated Twitter feeds in Arabic and Persian, and soon will add others in Chinese, Russian and Hindi."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/world/15clinton.html?_r=1&hpw
"The State Department plans to finance programs like circumvention services, which enable users to evade Internet firewalls, and training for human rights workers on how to secure their e-mail from surveillance or wipe incriminating data from cellphones if they are detained by the police. The department has also inaugurated Twitter feeds in Arabic and Persian, and soon will add others in Chinese, Russian and Hindi."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/world/15clinton.html?_r=1&hpw
Thursday, February 10, 2011
benefits of wireless
Obama from a speech at Northern Michigan University...
“It’s about a rural community in Iowa or Alabama where farmers can monitor weather across the state and markets across the globe. It’s about an entrepreneur on Main Street with a great idea she hopes to sell to the big city. It’s about every young person who no longer has to leave his hometown to seek new opportunity — because opportunity is right there at his or her fingertips.”
Seems to me as if this would be applicable to almost any country around the world, especially when we're facing issues like the youth bulge, a lack of quality employment opportunities, and the social costs of urbanization.
www.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/us/politics/11obama.html?hpw
“It’s about a rural community in Iowa or Alabama where farmers can monitor weather across the state and markets across the globe. It’s about an entrepreneur on Main Street with a great idea she hopes to sell to the big city. It’s about every young person who no longer has to leave his hometown to seek new opportunity — because opportunity is right there at his or her fingertips.”
Seems to me as if this would be applicable to almost any country around the world, especially when we're facing issues like the youth bulge, a lack of quality employment opportunities, and the social costs of urbanization.
www.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/us/politics/11obama.html?hpw
Thursday, February 3, 2011
making a local issue national news
taking a break from preparing for my russian test, i ran across this story from npr's foreign dispatch podcast for the week of jan 28th. just thought it was an interesting discussion of how an issue that used to only be upsetting to a small group at the local level (the son of a chinese police chief kills 2 people while driving drunk and thinks he can get away with it because of his family connection) has now reached a national audience with the help of the internet...
www.npr.org/2011/01/26/133233065/Internet-Helps-To-Hold-Chinese-Accountable
www.npr.org/2011/01/26/133233065/Internet-Helps-To-Hold-Chinese-Accountable
changing focus
i've now been back from Ukraine for more than 8 months, and have just started my second semester in the master of international development policy program at duke. since i was so good at keeping up my blog in ukraine :), i'm now reconstituting it to hopefully help with my research and interest areas at school.
one of my primary areas of focus is looking at the different ways that technology is impacting lives in the developing world. examples can be seen in anti-corruption campaigns, new methods for efficient project monitoring and evaluation, new micro-business opportunities for those caught in the "youth bulge", bringing new educational possibilities to youth, etc.
as i will be writing a master's thesis next year on this topic, i plan to start using this blog as a collection point for the various stories that i seem to run across every day. hopefully, this will help develop my ideas (and anyone else who happens across this) as to the various roles that technology can play in the future...
one of my primary areas of focus is looking at the different ways that technology is impacting lives in the developing world. examples can be seen in anti-corruption campaigns, new methods for efficient project monitoring and evaluation, new micro-business opportunities for those caught in the "youth bulge", bringing new educational possibilities to youth, etc.
as i will be writing a master's thesis next year on this topic, i plan to start using this blog as a collection point for the various stories that i seem to run across every day. hopefully, this will help develop my ideas (and anyone else who happens across this) as to the various roles that technology can play in the future...
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