…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…

…500 cases, all of them potentially fatal, had been discovered during an extensive survey of only 9,500 persons.[2] There were the usual journalists’ approximations about African geography: it was written…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…orchestrating anti-Muslim pogroms in 2002—returned stateside, traveling to Silicon Valley to promote a vast flotilla of e-governance initiatives called Digital India. At its core is what has been widely termed…

…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…

…on mysterious food rations. A Kroger supermarket at Kenwood Plaza, Cincinnati tests prototype bar code scanners in July 1972. 1974: Counting Codes: The first bar code scanner is installed in…

…was perfect in consistency and price for machine lubrication, particularly tin-plate processing. There are traditional, artisanal African methods of milling culinary palm oil from which Europeans’ accelerated production systems were…

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…

…of one official investigation, Eugene Spafford, pointed out, the code contained no commands that would harm a computer on which it ran, only commands intended to exploit vulnerabilities that allowed…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…time, or actually, for the last few months, dealing with four Level Three humanitarian crises; they are the biggest, meaning the highest level of crisis, and these are Central African…

…Hypercard in the 1980s). While the group develops such operating systems, it engages in a process of writing and rewriting code, as well as manifestos, lots of talking, even more…

…code, HR documents, and other files Decepticons 2017 Emmanuel Macron campaign staff emails Unknown 2017 Table 1: Public Interest Leaks There are likely cases—and I know of one—whereby a hacker…

…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…

…(Drew and Shane 2013). The founders of the CEH credential quickly distanced themselves from Snowden’s actions, noting that CEHs were required to follow a code of ethics, and that only…

…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…

…et al. 2010; Feldman-Savelsberg et al. 2000; Moulin 1996). As a representative from a West African regulatory authority put it: “For the African community we must have high quality protection…

…and mainstream news organizations subsequently reporting on the hack and commenting on the ensuing scandal.[4] The cache was the subject of an annotated, color-coded report published by the Lavoisier Group,…

…build, Samuel would go around and around with the contractors, who’d want access to all his source code without letting him see any of theirs. It made sense for them…

…of reliability and affordability. Accordingly, the expertise required to circulate electricity freely and competitively itself should emerge competitively, and as such, cannot be contained in predetermined, centralized venues such as…

…writing code, stopping only to ice his wrists (Townsend 2015). Yet, questions arose on the ground about the value and meaning of an endeavor that required an ever-growing number of…