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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Exploring mobile-only Internet use (South Africa)
Exploring mobile-only Internet use: results of a training study in urban South Africa Using an ethnographic action research approach, the study by Jonathan Donner...
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Meet the 2020 Chinese consumer
By 2020, Chinese consumers will join the ranks of the world
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The consumerisation of IT
In November last year, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) published the short (free) report “The consumerization of IT- The next-generation CIO“. The
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UNDP Mobile Technologies and Empowerment report
A report, recently published by UNDP, on mobile technologies and human development,
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M-Government
This report by Hani Eskandar (ITU), Barbara- Chiara Ubaldi (OECD) and Vyacheslav Cherkasov (UN-DESA) highlights the critical potential of mobile technologies for...
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The argument of this pamphlet, written by Charles Leadbeater for IPPR (the Institute for Public Policy Research, the UK
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In praise of lost time
Facebook Timeline is an exemplary bit of interaction design that does little to advance the timeline formally. Yet it might alter the nature of human memory itself...
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Striving and Surviving: exploring the lives of women at the Base of the Pyramid
On International Women’s Day, the GSMA mWomen Programme released a study called “Striving and Surviving
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Low2No featured in ARUP Design Yearbook 2011
The Design Yearbook 2011 of ARUP — the global firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants and technical specialists that Experientia collaborated with on...
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How to manufacture desire
Nir Eyal continues his article series on Techcrunch (see also “Habits are the new viral“) with a short essay on manufacturing desire. “Companies increasingly find...
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Book: The Transition Companion
The Transition Companion: making your community more resilient in uncertain times by Rob Hopkins Chelsea Green Pub Co, November 2011 320 pages Abstract In 2008,...
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Book: The Power of Habit
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg Random House, February 2012 400 pages Abstract In The Power of Habit, award-winning...
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Life 2.0 supporting elderly people
The Life 2.0 project is a EU funded project that aims at supporting elderly people
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That Windows 8 experience? Confusing. Confusing as hell
Trying out Windows 8 on the desktop gives a strange feeling, writes Matthew Baxter-Reynolds on The Guardian’s Technology Blog. There’s a solid update to Windows...
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Do m-health tools really work? Testing the impact of mobile technology on maternal and child healthcare
MobileActive has posted an in-depth new case study that focuses on evaluating mobile health interventions. Written by Kate Otto, the case study looks at testing...
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The landscape of UX design in Asia
Daniel Szuc and Josephine Wong describe the current state of UX design in Asia: “As businesses in Asia in various domains look to how they can mature, differentiate...
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Connected Learning
Together with a committed group of colleagues and partners, cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito has been engaged in the MacArthur Foundation
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