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Posts from ‘December, 2007’
DIS 2008 on February 23-24, 2008 in South Africa
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Workshop at Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) conference 2008: Building an International Community: Designing Interactive Systems for/ with Communities in the Developing World SUBMISSIONS To participate in this workshop at DIS 2008, please submit a 1- or 2-page position paper describing your experience, findings or interests relevant to the themes of the workshop. [...]
ICTD2008/2009 – Argentina or Qatar?
So (one of my paper reviewers recently noted that one should never start a sentence with “so”) , at the end of the banquet on the first night of ICTD2007, Kentaro (the ictd superman) introduced the two bids for the next ICTD conference. The two candidates? Buenos Aires (aka tourist and salsa heaven) and Carnegie [...]
ICTD2007 Notes from Bangalore
But unfortunately not Live! from Bangalore… ICTD2007 (in my opinion) was a smashing success! (With of course very little smashing, except for that errant glass hiding under a chair…). The conference was held at the Ashoka Hotel in Bangalore, India on Saturday and Sunday December 15-16, 2007. Before I digress into my overall observations, immediately [...]
Free to be free?
I’ve been thinking about services and social entrepreneurship and all sorts of good things about making money in such a way that the public as a whole benefits. And really, that is what entrepreneurship (“social” or otherwise) is about – finding some way that makes things better for some set of customers. And in many cases, it is about making things free (or virtually so), sometimes by having someone else pay for the service (e.g Google with AdWords, or even Aravind Eye Hospital). It goes to say that “free” [...]
