…own African nationals (Murithi 2007). Although Pan-African in name, critics argued that the OAU was not so much a shared vision for African unity, but instead, as one scholar calls…

…who went onsite alone and set up the first “treatment centers” with very limited means. And there were the first signs of mobilization and hope. “It is anticipated,” read the…

…crisis. The chart, a “fan chart,” is unusual insofar as it portrays graphically a probabilistic forecast of GDP with darker bands representing the more likely central projections of GDP and…

In March 2016, federal wildlife officials faced a barrage of criticism from California politicians concerning the regulation of the state’s water system. Senator Dianne Feinstein and a group of Republican…

…to the central government, without a commensurate change in how the central government redistributed this money. The result was that local governments became increasingly squeezed because the central government effectively…

…these diverse concerns and critiques was centralization: the centralization of energy production leads to a centralization of political power exercised by distant and detached technocrats over the dispersed and disempowered…

…new pathogens before they emerge. In 2014, the Ebola-related deaths of thousands of West Africans (far outside the original central African “hot zone”) revealed that the “global” reach of this…

…It drew not only upon the preexisting infrastructure of the Census, but also upon preexisting standards of administration, hierarchy, and contract in the creation of new governmental forms. Like other…

…to a series of African outbreaks over the last two decades. Along with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Centers for Disease control (CDC), the group can even…

…Grocery Product Code to develop standards in support of a single checkout system. Their work will lead to recommendations for the UPC (Universal Product Code) in 1973. 1973: Soylent Green…

…between Sierra Leone and Congo (Lynn 2002:1). One of the most productive of the world’s oil plants, E. guineensis can live for up to 200 years, yielding two crops of…

Infectious disease in poor African nations rarely generates the kind of sustained attention that the 2014 Ebola outbreak event has. Lassa fever, a viral hemorrhagic illness estimated to infect roughly…

…case signals that by 2008, hackers were openly pursuing this game plan; and unlike the Hal Turner incident, the mainstream press picked up the Sarah Palin hack, with Gawker and…

…stick with the Stuxnet code into a computer running the Siemens SCADA software. The worm replicated itself through an internally networked system and it apparently opens up control to outsiders,…

…It was all national-security-ied up the arse of course, of course, but Huawei was a critical infrastructure partner of the Seven Eyes nations, and Samuel kept his clearances up with…

…and photographs, the following section is an exercise in critical design anthropology, serving a dual purpose of documentation and provocation. Building on African solutions to African problems—namely the shortage of…

…Commission 2015a:1). On first sight, the name Energy Union might appear as just a rhetorical play on words intending to promote the energy policy of the Juncker Commission. But it…

…is being revived in programs of infrastructure planning that rely on private investment, both from African publics and from non-African investors. Aung explores how infrastructure development for a special economic…

…places and to a large city,” making it “an exceptional event for an Ebola outbreak up until today” (Samb 2014). Despite these worrisome signs, Jochum lamented, the international response had…

…with new or historic ideas about programming paradigms, system design and information design, as well as a range of assumptions and visions about cognition, communication, sociality, politics and media. The…

…control methods, regulatory and legal issues, cryptography, policy development, and “information ethics” (Tipton 1993). Importantly, certification also required that members swear to uphold the (ISC)2 code of ethics. For many…

…hackerly and Open Source approach to biological construction [is] one that trades on the equation of DNA to source code and then posits that such code must be editable and…

…massive archive of movement. Along with dance experts Irmgard Bartenieff and Forestine Paulay, Lomax set out on a mission: to collect, view, code, and catalog filmed samples of dance from…

…machine to measure the charge a sample holds.[1] Yet costly design components (including gold) are also part of the reason that glucometer strips remain too expensive for most people in…

…partners have been quickly assembled to design and implement fast-track clinical trials; regulatory requirements have been streamlined; plans have been put forward to set up an indemnity fund to insure…

…up as an analytical source by news organizations can signal against its reliability as a primary source to other mainstream journalistic news organizations and simultaneously signal its attractiveness to conspiracy…