…freezer contains books that forecast what tomorrow would be, such as Future Shock, the famous bestseller written by Alvin Toffler in 1970. Written 20 or 30 years ago, the content…

…of May ‘68. As it spread through the social sciences around 1970, it was considered “leftist” just as econometric techniques, one the other hand, were thought of as “rightist.” Today…

…bootcamp, usually held in Nairobi or Kampala, and receive upwards of £100,000 in DFID funding and IDEO design support to implement their ideas. To date, seven challenges have been completed,…

The Participatory Development Toolkit is a “small briefcase (26 x 33 x 10 cm) containing 221 activity cards, 65 pictures, 11 charts, 1 guidebook”; it is “covered in brown pattered…

…private bodily practices into a shared affair. Across Nairobi’s low-income settlements the toilet has come to showcase moments of “excessive attention” (Simone 2010:40), whether through externally sponsored rehabilitation schemes or…

…as they were carrying whole blood to a waiting U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules at Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal. The blood was being sent to Liberia…

…more than 138,000 congenital syphilis cases and more than 148,000 stillbirths annually. A test that could be performed with no laboratory infrastructure could prevent more than 201,000 congenital syphilis cases…

…the digital media they create. They also hold “control over a valuable skill” (Ensmenger 2010: 231), meaning at times they—and only they—know what the heck is going on. For example,…

…one. On March 25, the Guinean Ministry of Health officially notified WHO of the outbreak, reporting 86 suspected cases and 60 deaths. Such notification pointed toward the potential declaration by…

…technology, the greater is the potential for harm as well (Kelly 2010:246). Sure enough, we soon observed the same technology of liberation become a tool for repression. It was inevitable,…

…It was December 2010, and my plans were simple: finish my book manuscript on the politics of free and open-source software hacking and spend time with my family on an…

…nearly 90 percent from the time when humans first began harvesting menhaden from Atlantic coastal and estuarine waters. Omega Protein was hardly the first to recognize menhaden’s value. The etymology…