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Theme : technology
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Internet users challenge mainstream politics
Online interaction could improve democratic participation, say leading American cyberculture writer and UK e-government minister
from : mollywebb
2nd August 2006
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3G Mobiles promise better London living
The public sector could deliver better services and improve political participation using wireless technology
from : mollywebb
2nd August 2006
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Low-carbon economy needs new regulatory approach
Ofgem should make ‘public value’ main goal rather than focusing on post-privatisation issues of price and efficiency, says new Demos report
from : mollywebb
2nd August 2006
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Digital TV will ‘undermine licence fee’
Government should address long-term future for publicly funded television during current BBC charter review, says senior advisor
from : mollywebb
2nd August 2006
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Open source disaster recovery
Open source disaster recovery
from : paulmiller
25th July 2006
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Harare 1 - Snakes in a Well
The third nanodialogue has just wrapped up. In Harare, we've spent the last two weeks with mushroom-farmers, brick-makers and water scientists, imagining the role that nanotechnology might play in their lives. The gulf between Western technoscience and applications for poor communities is far wider than I'd imagined. Ask people from Epworth - a Harare suburb currently recovering from Mugabe's Operation Murambatsvina - what they want from new technologies and they talk about the rope and washer..
from : jackstilgoe
24th July 2006
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BBC NEWS | Business | Wage worry as Wipro profits boom
BBC NEWS | Business | Wage worry as Wipro profits boom
from : paulmiller
19th July 2006
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collective action?
I think pledgebank is one of the best examples of connecting individual's social concerns with wider action. This happens on the individual's terms -- you make a pledge and hope that others sign on.Tom Steinberg says "We all know what it is like to feel powerless, that our own actions can't really change the things that we want to change. PledgeBank is about beating that feeling..."Of course this doesn't mean that the pledges necessarily link individuals to government, but that is...
from : mollywebb
14th July 2006
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US, Korea (KAIST) and Switzerland collaborate on nano
Polymers team up for nanoelectronics manufacturing - nanotechweb.org"...researchers from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, US, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland have come up with a hybrid method for patterning silicon that exploits a mixture of polymers." KAIST's origins go back to the Principal law of Science in Korea (1971?) But 1980 and 1989 mergers and changes brought it to its current form. (from the website) -...
from : mollywebb
13th July 2006
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Expert cheering?
I know many in the UK will be watching England play Trinidad & Tobago today. But did you know that you could take that spontaneous game excitement and make it into a national cultural export? Well, you can. Korea did. "The energetic cheering is in the process of turning into a tourist program as part of 'hallyu,' or a Korean pop culture boom overseas, especially in Southeast Asian countries," according to Korea Net (which, I grant you, is a website full of essentially government...
from : mollywebb
11th July 2006
