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Tag Archives: technology
briefly noted: disruptive technological change
1) The Atlantic on the Digital Underground of North Korea 2) New York Times Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software about innovations in AI that allow textual analysis of large sets of documents. The article discusses two approaches … Continue reading
Posted in Reorganization
Tagged AI, China, internet, Rebecca MacKinnon, technology, text analysis
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Toyama’s myths of information technology and development
Dr. Kentaro Toyama, a researcher in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, presents 10 myths of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in development that persist despite evidence against them and suggests approaches to build successful projects … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Management, Inequality
Tagged development, ICT, Kentaro Toyama, technology
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Untangling the Environmentalist’s Paradox
My colleagues are I recently published a paper in BioScience, Untangling the Environmentalist’s Paradox: Why Is Human Well-being Increasing As Ecosystem Services Degrade? The paper originated from the involvement of the first four authors, my former PhD student Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne, … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Economics, Ecosystem services, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Tagged agriculture, BioScience, Ciara-Radusepp Hearne, Elena Bennett, Garry Peterson, HDI, human development index, human wellbeing, Maria Tengö, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, technology, Untangling the Environmentalist's Paradox: Why Is Human Well-being Increasing As Ecosystem Services Degrade?
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FailFaire
That people need to learn in order to build a better world is a key idea motivating a lot of resilience projects, and learning requires failures that you can learn from. In New York Times Stephanie Strom reports on FailFaire, … Continue reading
Ethan Zuckerman’s Propositions for Successful Development Innovations
Ethan Zuckerman writes about innovation in developing countries in Innovating from constraint and suggests seven “rules” or propositions about how innovation proceeds in the developing world. He writes: I’d been asked by the organizers [of the seminar on the Information … 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