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 […]
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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 […]
Published on February 11th, 2020Uesb integra projeto tecnológico internacional Estudantes propõem soluções tecnológicas para problemas sociais, durante workshop em parceria com o MIT UESB INTEGRA PROJETO TECNOLÓGICO INTERNACIONAL
Published on January 30th, 2020By Gabriel Pereira¹, Pedro Torres², and Lisa Parks³, with an interview of Paulo Gomes⁴ In Brazil, much of the plastic gets thrown away and picked by “catadores,” people who scavenge trash bins and dumps looking for recyclable material. The “catadores” go on to sell whatever they […]
Published on January 24th, 2020Congrats to GMTaC Lab affiliate, Alan Zhang, who recently published an article entitled, “Strategic Responses to Grand Challenges: Why and How Corporations Build Community Resilience,” in the peer-reviewed Journal of Business Ethics. The article is available at: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-019-04345-y
Published on January 16th, 2020The SITS Brazil team of the GMTaC lab has been preparing over the past few months and is now ready for departure. Tomorrow, a group of MIT grad students will travel to the Brazilian State of Bahia to kick off the second edition of Social IT […]
Published on January 15th, 2020Written by Zahra Thabet, UROP Student in the GMTaC Lab Last semester I conducted research on Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests submitted to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, a federal law enforcement agency that operates under the purview of the Department of Homeland […]
Published on January 15th, 2020Written by Daniel Grinberg Given the egregious human rights abuses of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that have come to light, it is vital for the American public and global publics to be more fully aware of the strategies and scope of the agency’s […]
Published on January 9th, 2020https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-drones-eye-view-of-the-quick-and-the-dead/