Issue 10 Chokepoints »Cool Trading…a former algorithmic trader who followed the events, “the market simply disappeared. For what felt like an eternity, but was more likely 30 seconds to a minute, there were no…
Issue 2 Crowds and Clouds »Crowd funding and its Challenges…possible nor appropriate for Kiva to attempt online promotion of borrowers who may seem most in need or most worthy of financing. Kiva lacks the deep knowledge of local contexts…
Issue 5 Ebola’s Ecologies »Medical Vulnerability, or Where There Is No Kit…complement of medical and protective supplies, the document outlines two smaller configurations, one designed for initial assessment of potential outbreaks and another for local health centers. With regard to the…
Issue 4 Food Infrastructures »Measuring Food…the government made them do it, but because it was cost-effective for the company. Any of the other options available—sending the cartons back as a return, for instance—would have required…
Issue 5 Ebola’s Ecologies »Two States of Emergency: Ebola 2014…suffused with emergencies, decision-makers must have a means for deciding how to allocate scarce resources.[7] At an April 8 press briefing, WHO Assistant Director-General for Health Security Keiji Fukuda provided…
Issue 5 Ebola’s Ecologies »Global Health Doesn’t Exist…actionable epidemic response plans, and advocates for health as a basic human right. As part of this mission, it rallies member nations around central goals for development and disease eradication….