…circa 2007. People also called numbers randomly in search of phone friends who might become romantically involved and eventually meet face to face. Persistent calls from unknown numbers became a…

…Ikea Website: 1998 Launch of the unofficial platform IkeaHackers.net: 2006 14 Year the first officially Ikea-approved hackable sofa bed will hit the market: 2018 15 Number of phone calls AT&T…

…declare an official emergency until August, and even then had difficulty galvanizing an intensive international response. The WHO “should be the global leader” in directing and coordinating international health efforts,…

…an Army General. Nor could international organizations augment American resources: “At all times the infectious disease unit at WHO is running on a shoestring,” said an international health official. As…

…economist who was a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics at the time. The Institute, now the Peterson Institute for International Economics, was founded in 1981.[2] Circa 1979-80,…

…here. With name and badge number in hand, Anonymous tweeted a dox containing the officer’s name (Anthony Bologna), last known addresses, family members, phone number, and legal troubles. Because Bologna…

…vengeance (International Business Times 2015). Anonymous members declared war on politically violent Islamic extremists. Some Anons said it was their democratic duty to engage in the international political battle against…

…slow-paced international response to the outbreaks in West Africa. Initial cases in late March garnered a speedy response, with a whole host of international experts descending on the scene in…

…the international tobacco control field. To conclude, I want to reflect on how this story relates to wider historical accounts about the proliferation of micro-technologies within international development and humanitarian…

…said everything will be fine mum if you see this dont worry i love you 80s Digital Fantasy Phone. Illustration by Amisha Gadani. Plausible Deniability “We’re dead.” “Shut up Jose,…

…the project site at Kyangjin Gompa in November 2016 (Nima Lama). Construction on the project, relocated to a new site further up the valley near Kyangjin Gompa, began in early…

…domestication of hacking in 1999: The treatment of espionage under international law may help us make an educated guess as to how the international community will react to information operations…

…by a single equation: the reproductive ratio, or R0, which determines the average number of people a sick individual will infect. Spreading only through close physical contact with very sick…

…divisions, which fight big crime, international networks, and the mafia, have never produced any important numbers because the enemy, although powerful, is a very small crowd. Arresting Al Capone is…

…find jobs, improve productivity, invest in the health and education of their children, and protect the aging population (World Bank 2017). Evaluation For the many experts and officials at international…

…with a mobile phone and a bicycle to facilitate their movement within the village as they travel to the local primary health care center (PHC). The cell phone has prerecorded…

Several years into a major political transition in Myanmar, the Thilawa special economic zone (SEZ) officially opened for business in September 2015. Located on a riverbank 14 miles southeast of…

…reflected in the statistic that more people in the world today have access to a mobile phone than a safe and clean toilet (United Nations 2013). As such, the toilet…

…vast industrial parks flooded. Likewise, large numbers of smaller Thai businesses either didn’t have insurance or came to realize it was inadequate. The overarching financial health of international insurers became…

…health officials for poor planning, which faded as the anticipated wave of h1n1 arrived without causing a catastrophic number of deaths. In Europe, when the fall wave arrived, the apparent…

…commerce with the Ottoman Empire) to major centers of European and Neo-European trade, cities like Venice, Paris, London, and Boston. The centralized demands of coffee production produce sites of social…

…2010, 3), and to provide “insights into the origin of the universes”(Beech 2010, vii). Respect. Admiration. Adoration, even. The question remains how such a peculiar site (the Pays de Gex…

…many jagged edges, and it does not slide easily enough from site to site. It gets caught. It slows the statisticians down, effacing their models as it does so. “Wealth…

…translate this potential into a stable consumer base. A set of field trials and experiments in a number of sites, including Bangladesh, Haiti, and Pakistan, finally yielded a couple of…

…role in the piecemeal global public health mapping[2] of a diabetes epidemic rising worldwide. Even with increasing bureaucratic recognition, the number of people with diabetes remains debated by major policy…