Interview with Ethan Zuckerman, Global Voices Online co-founder

From Dropping Knowledge, this interview with Ethan Zuckerman, part 1 and part 2, introduced me to Global Voices Online. I didn’t realize he was also part of Geekcorps.
I found this story under Global Voices Online, Education about parents in Bahrain lamenting the state of education in her country.  One parent describes the need [...]

Better technology for disaster relief

I just stumbled across this article about technology and humanitarian efforts in Tech Soup.  I want to think that libraries can be part of this communication loop.  It seems like an opportunity for those who are interested in global librarianship that connecting relief organizations with computer centers (and libraries with computer centers) so that [...]

The definition of technology

Technology is a funny word. One of the things I learned at the iSchool was that the book, the pencil, even a piece of paper, is a type of technology (this may be old hat to engineers or other technologist-types, but to me it was an “aha” moment). But in development circles, it [...]

Technology and pearls

The following are some unformed, unresearched thoughts. But I wanted to write them, as perhaps a seed of something else to come.
In the 19th century, in Europe and in North America, an adult education movement flowered. Parallel to the industrial revolution, adults who had not had opportunities for education as children, but who [...]