May 2014 Blog Posts (6)

A Round Table on 'Inclusion in the network society- mapping development alternatives, forging research agendas' is being organised by IT for Change and IDRC, from 29th September to 1st October, 2014.



The round table will bring together around 25 participants – leading scholars, development practitioners and thinkers, who are interested in the theoretical and policy aspects of equity, inclusion and participation in the 'ICTs and development' domain.



This open call is to…

Understanding is the key issues of life. Without understanding our situation will become worsen and state of confusion. 

As human, collaboration is very essential and for us to collaborate to solve our climate issues and risk reduction, there must be digestion of each others perspective.

Understanding each others perspective does not come easily and not on a plater of gold but on an effective dialogue…

Today, May 15, 2014 a vote will be taken at the FCC. Today the Internet we know can change forever. Today at 10:30 am EST the FCC meets to vote on the issue on whether or not allow the collection of special rates to provide certain services through the Internet for those who can afford it.  A "faster lane" has been called. Events can be followed live here:…

The Internet was replaced by a dual system created in 2014: a fiber optic network called "Net2Cash".  It has a speed of one hundred Petabits per second (equivalent to 100 million Gigabits per second or 100,000 million Megabits per second).  We no longer talk about Megabytes or Gigabytes because that is old school.  Nowadays a couple of Exabites store the content of all written by man, from books and newspapers to the Sumerian clay tablets; from Inca quipus and Egyptian hieroglyphs to all…