…scratch (or “flex”) cards that people buy to top up their mobile phone airtime balances (Fig. 6). Matthew was one of the first to teach himself how to repair phones;…

…information designer: 1 6 Number of FBI moles urging LulzSec to hack the Icelandic parliament to provide the FBI with the perfect excuse to visit Iceland so that they could…

…into those enormous steel bins. Because the Internet is designed to capture and distribute information to the widest audience, once information is posted, it is difficult to erase. The tools…

…to behave that way. If he failed to help them get their code into Huawei’s fleet, he’d have to answer to governments around the world. If they failed to help…

…sought to serve. He explained to representatives that banks “refuse to open their doors to the poor people who cannot provide collateral” and that “giving money to the poor is…

…too little. They are vulnerable to the charge of being too limited as well as the charge of being too expansive. They fail to tackle fundamental global injustices, but they…

…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…

…now-classic essay “The De-Scription of Technical Objects” (1992), it is often “only in the confrontation between the real user and the projected user [that] the importance of…the difference between the…

…When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” Today we might say: “This is New York, sir. There is no longer any difference between fact and legend.” The numbers are…

…recounted the story like this: one day they were clearing the plot they had begun to farm along the riverbank when she came across a metal rod driven into the…

The IkoToilet, meaning “Here is the toilet” in Swahili, is a Nairobi-wide public–private sanitation intervention that aims to address the lack of adequate sanitation options across the city. The core…

…the record of the existence and circulation of the money thus far. (The solutions to the problems are meaningless, exceedingly improbable results of slowly escalating difficulty to keep the rate…

…the plan. Perhaps they were planning to release the more interesting stuff closer to the election, but they felt like they somehow had to respond to the public accusation. Who…

…the unintelligible or malicious, the ground truth from the inaccurate, and the usable data from the spam. Speed A hallmark of how we think about computers today is speed –…

…into being may be erased. The danger of this erasure, to put it plainly, is that there is no reason to believe that Wang (or others) will continue to farm…

…allowing them to watch the watchers, track what the U.S. surveillance military system was seeing, and adjust their positions and movements accordingly (Shachtman 2009). This was as far from the…

…the fish are enclosed, the purse seine net is cinched tight like a drawstring. A hydraulic vacuum pump then sucks the menhaden from the net into the hold of the…

…biofuel indoors is linked to emissions of smoke and particulate matter that harm the lungs, heart, and eyes. At the ecosystem level, fuelwood collection is linked to deforestation and the…

…other words, there are no more secrets.” He will bring down every rotten institution, expose every lie, open government to the governed. “As of today, whatever you want to know,…

…the firm. Today, the government maintains a 35% share, while the rest is traded publicly on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE). In addition to providing mobile infrastructure to nearly 70%…

…to the sequence of the human genome.[12] Today, the injunction to share and to make available all genomic information— not just of the human genome, but all genomes—is driven once…

…disinfect one’s hands. Figure 1. Pool of the Palm Camayenne, Conakry. The exception to the rule is the Palm Camayenne hotel, located on Conakry’s corniche (Figures 1, 2). Here, there…