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Information and communication technologies in the Anthropocene
UPDATED: Slides from the talks at the end of this blogpost The use of social media for political mobilization during the political uprisings in Northern Africa and the Middle East during 2010 and 2011; digital coordination of climate skeptic networks … Continue reading
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Information and Communication Technologies and Climate Change
Richard Heeks and Angelica Ospina at the University of Manchester’s Centre for Development Informatics‘ run the blog Notes on ICTs, Climate Change and Development. Recently Angelica Ospina wrote about ICTs within a Changing Climate: According to the latest Information Economy … Continue reading
Mobile phones and global communication
The spread of mobile phones across the developing world has been extremely rapid in the past few years (e.g. 4X increase between 2001-2005 in Africa). The BBC reports on the annual Information Economy report from the UN conference on trade … Continue reading