#1: The Amazon Kindle While growing numbers of people in the development sector get increasingly excited at the potential of tablet computing for health, agriculture, education and other development activities, it’s the Amazon Kindle that’s been exciting me recently. The irony is, without really trying, Amazon have built something which more closely resembles an appropriate … Continue reading Accidental appropriate technologies
Month: January 2012
What if Apple worked in ICT4D? Reflections on the possible
“Two weeks ago, I was staying at a working dairy farm sixty kilometers north of Bogotá, Colombia. I was fiddling around with my iPad when one of the kids that worked in the stables came up to me and started staring at it. He couldn’t have been more than six years old, and I’d bet … Continue reading What if Apple worked in ICT4D? Reflections on the possible
Caught on camera [phone]
They say a picture paints a thousand words, and that may be the case. But if they cost the earth or you don’t have permission to use them, they end up painting nothing much at all. When my mobile ‘career’ kicked off in 2003 with multiple research trips to South Africa and Mozambique, I took … Continue reading Caught on camera [phone]
The never-ending road to self-improvement
“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to” Alan Keightley Sports players are always told they can “do better”. Even championship winning teams are told they can “play better”. A musician’s next album could always “sound better” and Little Johnny … Continue reading The never-ending road to self-improvement