Published on June 4th, 2020Written by Sophie Toupin During the South African liberation struggle, a group of scientists and techies formed a technical committee to assist the African National Congress (ANC) in its quest to fight against the apartheid regime in power since 1948. The technical committee, officially formed in the […]
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Published on May 7th, 2020A blog post by Kelly Wagman These are strange times indeed: however, as coronavirus news started to ramp up, I was struck by a familiar set of feelings. A few years ago, I went through a period of medical trauma. I won’t go into detail, but […]
Published on May 3rd, 2020A blog post by Meng Liang Love and Producer was likely one of the most sensational mobile games in China in 2017. Developed by Suzhou Diezhi Network Technology Co., Ltd (SDNT), this mobile dating simulation game generated roughly 20 million yuan (3.1 million US dollars) in revenues […]
Published on April 21st, 2020Written by Toussaint Nothias In 2016, Facebook’s grand project to ‘connect the unconnected’ was banned in India after a year-long national debate led by net neutrality activists. Globally, however, the project kept expanding, particularly across Africa: by the summer of 2019, at least 32 African nations […]
Published on April 13th, 2020The COVID-19 pandemic has had unprecedented transformational effects on media and technological dynamics in almost every country. These conditions have especially impacted official communication sources, educational media, and issues surrounding access to network infrastructure and computer hardware. To get a sense of how these issues are […]
Published on March 20th, 2020A blog post by Iago Bojczuk and Pedro Torres As the GMTaC Lab led the SITS-Brazil workshop at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) and the State University of Southwestern Bahia (UESB) in January 2020, our MIT team learned about a student-led project that was being […]
Published on February 21st, 2020Written by María Alvarez Malvido Redes por la Diversidad, Equidad y Sustentabilidad A.C Indigenous Peoples across the world have proven that technology can be a tool for autonomy when it is owned by the community and managed through the community’s decision-making processes. In Mexico, where 68 […]
Published on February 21st, 2020Written by Roger Baig Viñas Guifi.net (a play on words combining the name of the Village where it was started, Gurb, and WiFi) is a well-known success case of community networks. It was started by local villagers in 2004 in a rural area of Catalonia to […]
Published on February 18th, 2020Written by Graduate Research Assistant Iago Bojczuk On the trip back to Cambridge, Massachusetts after leading the Social IT Solutions Workshop at the Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology (DIT) in Tanzania during January 2019, the GMTaC team came up with an ambitious plan to run […]