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“Digital Youth Project” – Youth and knowledge development networks
The MacArthur Foundation has published a report on the “Digital Youth Project”. This is a fascinating report on the findings of a research project that looked at young people’s informal use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and what they … Continue reading
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“Gold farming” and ICT4D
Salon (via Boing Boing) had an article about Richard Heeks’ interesting economic and developmental analysis of so-called “gold farming”, titled “Current Analysis and Future Research Agenda on “Gold Farming”: Real-World Production in Developing Countries for the Virtual Economies of Online … Continue reading
Posted in Development, ICTs, Knowledge development
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Is the mobile web all good?
The BBC News site ran an article yesterday about the spread of the mobile web. Nothing surprising about that, it is the big buzz these days. I guess what is noteworthy now is that the “big” corporations (in this case … Continue reading
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The end of the OLPC project?
OLPC is making a big mistake by considering including Windows on its laptops. In this BBC News article, Negroponte is quoted as saying, “We are in the learning business and what the operating system is underneath is less germane” Hogwash! … Continue reading
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Leapfrogging and technology diffusion
The focus of the World Bank’s “Global Economic Prospects” this year is “Technology diffusion in the developing world”. Not surprisingly, this has generated a lot of discussion about the “leapfrogging” concept, i.e. accelerating development through the adoption of cheap new … Continue reading
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References for Millennium Declaration Analysis Series
I have received several requests to post references referred to in my so-called “Millennium Declaration Analysis Series” which I link to in the left margin of the main page of this blog. These lengthy articles are drafts that I produced … Continue reading
