ResearchersLilly Irani…appeared at ACM SIGCHI, New Media & Society, Science, Technology & Human Values, South Atlantic Quarterly, and other venues. She has a Ph.D. in Informatics from University of California, Irvine….
Issue 9 Little Development Devices / Humanitarian Goods »Preface: Little Development Devices / Humanitarian Goods…to services such as health care and finance. Sites in sub-Saharan Africa and South and Southeast Asia are notably prominent in the geography of these devices and provide the setting…
Issue 0 Prototyping Prototyping »The Long History of Prototypes…people of the west (such as various alternative medicines and mind and body techniques) or re-imported from the rural areas of the world both north and south (as many buildings…
Issue 7 Public Infrastructures/Infrastructural Publics »Who Owns Africa’s Infrastructure?…sovereignty, territorial integrity, and independence of its member states,” but also to “promote democratic principles and institutions, popular participation, and good governance” (African Union 2002). Today, the African Union is…
Issue 10 Chokepoints »Strangling the Internet…autonomous nodes. If Fortaleza were shut down, all data traffic that flows north and south through the cable station would come to a halt—it is a single point of failure…