Tryggvi Thayer, Ph.D.
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Category Archives: Information Society
Mobile carriers in a conundrum as data traffic grows
The Swedish Mobile technology company, Ericsson, reported at the recent CTIA 2010 conference that data traffic has now surpassed voice traffic on mobile networks worldwide. The really surprising thing about this is that this growth occurs despite the rather dismal … Continue reading
Global Information Technology Report 2009-2010
The World Economic Forum has just published its Global Information Technology Report for 2009-2010. There’s some interesting movement on the accompanying Network Readiness Index. A few E. Asian countries are continuing their upward move, most notably Hong Kong and Taiwan. … Continue reading
Wifi on the schoolbus
This is an excellent example of the impact a seemingly simply (and, I might suggest, obvious) innovation can have. New York Times: Wi-Fi Turns Rowdy Bus Into Rolling Study Hall
Pew overstating changes in blogging/internet behavior?
The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project has released new findings that they claim show that, “… young people are losing interest in long-form blogging, as their communication habits have become increasingly brief, and mobile.” If this is … Continue reading
Uruguay gives laptops to every public primary school student
Uruguay has completed their plan of equipping every student in the country’s public primary schools with an XO Laptop computer. The final count of the computers was 396,727 laptop computers. The project is not completed because not all of the … Continue reading
Broadband access becomes a legal right in Finland
Finland recently became the first country in the world make access to highspeed Internet a legal right. International institutions like the UN hafa promoted access to communications technology as a human right at least since UNESCO’s MacBride Report (Many Voices … Continue reading
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