Internet and the new way of thinking

It’s a long time I have the impression that my mind is changing the way it “works”.
In other words, I feel like the tools I use to do my job, and Internet in particular, are modifying the way my mind process information and manage knowledge. So, reading, writing and, consequently, working approaches have been reshaped. [...]

I found my place in Tanzania

Isn’t it great?
The Internet cafe in Njombe in Tanzania is called TUPO: Time to Unite People Online.
This is my place!!!

What is a “browser”

I think we should spend much more time on communication…
P.S.: thanks @gaurisalokhe

Km4Dev has a new house on the Web!

I’m very happy to announce that the KM4Dev list has a pretty new house on the Web:

Thanks Lucie and Michael for setting it up!

The ability of creating linkages through the Internet

I recently found this article and I think it’s worth reading it. Written by Seth Godin, it’s called “How to make money using the Internet“. As you can understand from the title, the article is meant for a business audience and not directly for people involved in development projects.
Nonetheless, I see interesting prods about how [...]

More and more integration and convergence

The Digital World Forum “Africa Perspective on the role of Mobile Technologies in fostering social and economic development” held in Maputo 1 – 2 April 2009 seemed to have produced numerous interventions in support of the idea of convergence between tools.
Have a look at this two interviews with Ken Banks of FrontlineSMS on “Using SMS [...]

Numbers of the world of mobile phones

A very useful summary of the International Telecommunications Union’s 2009 edition of  Measuring the Information Society – The ICT Development Index (PDF, 1.53MB) has been published by Antonella Pastore on the blog of the ICT-Km Program.
A very interesting question comes out of the analysis: “is this the end of the Web as we know it?“
The [...]

Faces form twitter

A funny tool to visualize the “faces” of those who are following you on twitter:

Something I discover thanks to my friend Gauri.

1981: predicting the birth of Internet

Have  a look at what techcrunch found out somewhere, somehow around Youtube.

This video is really fantastic and gives a flavor of what, less than 30 years ago, seemed to be only science-fiction.
The speaker ended her note mentioning speed and cost of the new service and concluding that it wouldn’t be able [...]

Will cellphones replace other ICTs?

With his article called “Rural communication: Is there still a need for telecentres now that there are mobile phones?” Ion Howard of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) affords a very interesting topic.

The problem is real: will mobile phones replace other ICTs wherever they are not yet developed? In my opinion, they are a killer [...]

Do you know 2.0?

Is the school preparing children to address the coming world?
Are development projects addressing new forms of education as effective tools to fight and prevent future poverty and hunger?
Open questions for which I don’t have answers but only ideas…

LinuxDay 2008 in Italy

25th October: Linux Day 2008 in Italy

Mongolia and the power of human relationship

Mongolia is a very interesting country. Both on the geographical and the social point of view. Human relationships are so important there that everything relays on mutual support. Why?
Here is my explanation. The country is huge, more than 1.5 million square km (five times Italy and almost half of West Europe) while the population is [...]

Are we close to the end of the bubble?

Always more and more people talk a lot about the bubble. Maybe the money facebook is able to absorb from the market is a tangible example…

To me, the great difference between now and the early 2000 is that today only some companies are close to crash while at that time most [...]

Let’s sustain the campaign for freedom in Myanmar

It is time to use the power of the web to sustain who is fighting a very difficult situation: Myanmar is dealing with repression from the dictatorship.
I strongly invite everyone who is reading this post to read blogs from Myanmar, watch videos on youtube, forward this call to friends. Let us orient the Internet traffic [...]