…sure how it works exactly. But they respond. “They respond…because I am their customer.” As a customer, Karen received the sort of recognition that many Papua New Guineans seek in…

…order. A Chinese saying goes: “Kill the cock to frighten the monkey.” A customer checks the health of a chicken in a live poultry market. Since sentinels are often the…

…that Yunus created to promote it. Microfinance customers have re-imagined what the financial services can do and why they need them. Customers divert microfinance loans from businesses and instead use…

…customers of the breach. Because it would have been a PR disaster for them, that may have seen them lose customers to their competitors, causing them to lose money. That…

…Frontières (MSF) marked World TB day by calling for the “urgent need for ‘a simple test which yields results almost instantly and can be used by any laboratory technician, nurse…

…chat transcripts, all linked to a credit card and a single identity. When the customer eventually felt guilt and regret, or fear of discovery, they would shut down their account…

Historically, casinos have been eager adopters of technologies that help them to gather knowledge about their customers. The knowledge-gathering repertoire of the modern casino has shifted from telephone surveys, focus…

…representatives of the RECs and their agencies, along with representatives of 36 governments” (SOFRECO 2011:44). PIDA explicitly organizes a greater role in the planning process for regions and regional institutions….

…the scalar politics of energy security and the ways that Nepal’s hydropower frontier (half real, half imagined) is shaped by diverse economies of anticipation (Cross 2015). Figure 1. Small, medium,…

…it customer care, imparting the knowledge of a connoisseur, or is it a sleight-of-hand trick to get wealthy customers to part with more of their money? At stake is whether…

…was directed at major international business players in the “big FIRE” sector (“Fire, Insurance, Real Estate”). True, this latter group had the means to protect itself. They lived and worked…

…systems, reduce costs for access to health care, and thus contribute to health equity. Connectivity promises to bring new bodies and populations into sight, alleviating suffering and saving lives; any…

…in the world. More than 7,000 city employees distribute nearly 3.5 billion liters of water daily by managing more than 4,000 kilometers of pipe. Their work makes possible the lives…

…they can live through, and live with. For instance, in the middle of the 2013 European horse meat scandal, Thomas Landrain, a major figure of the DIYbio network, posted on…

…frontiers has been a dramatic factor in the Ebola outbreak. Frontiers, though largely irrelevant to kinship and social networks, stimulated the opportunistic movement of people (for trade or protection, for…

…value infrastructure delegated to community leaders, activist and advocacy groups, elected representatives, government officials, or technical experts, and how are the decisions or judgments they make contested? In other words,…

…the product begin? Does transport of the ingredient towards the customer belong to DSM’s LCA or to the customer’s LCA? Ultimately, the LCA will be mobilized in marketing. Some quantification…

…services were linked, India would be de-duplicated. De-duplication did not require UIDAI: multiple parallel and derivative data-cleaning projects emerged around the same time. The customer list of a small cooking…

…Jose. You’ve got a lot of fine points, but your cool head is not one of them.” My voice cracked as I finished this. Some cool customer I was. I…

…are asked to think forward into the future, to evaluate their lives in the round, to rank their anxiety against their contentment. Seen from another angle, however, simplicity is a…

…some revolutionary ambitions. But is it a better tent? Does it live up to its aims of producing a compact, cheap, lightweight product for meeting a basic human need? The…

…millions in a consistent, orderly, and equitable manner.[1] But as we know from Max Weber, bureaucracy has a dark side: many “customers” and “citizens” experience bureaucracy as inexplicable confusion, frustration,…

…Harper and Row Brothers, 1960): ix. [2] Kurt Lewin, “Experiments on Autocratic and Democratic Atmospheres,” The Social Frontier, Vol. IV, July 1938: 316. [3] Kurt Lewin, Ronald Lippitt, and Ralph…

…design problems for poor patients are identified, what happens next? As Alice Street discusses in this issue, point-of-care diagnostics have become a frontier of innovation for various global health projects….

…customers, and a source of profit and public recognition for themselves. III Taken as a “type” all its own, Ashaiman’s DBPTs offer a compelling alternative to both the modernist ideal…

…it flashes up from the transitory, ineffable convergence of numerous errant bodies, the traces of which describe an ever-shifting frontier. The archive is no surrogate for cultural memory, nor is…