Issue 9 Little Development Devices / Humanitarian Goods »The Humble Cookstove…improve human health, standard of living, and forest resources. Stoves can be both gifts and goods. As with solar lights and other technologies made for socially distant others, improved cookstoves…
Issue 9 Little Development Devices / Humanitarian Goods »Iterate, Experiment, Prototype…structural constraints to participation—post preliminary ideas on the Web2.0-type website. There are a number of free-form text boxes where participants answer open-ended prompts such as, “Explain your idea,” ‘“Who benefits?”…
Issue 2 Crowds and Clouds »Mapping the Social World: From Aggregates to IndividualsFor a long time, statistics has had a reputation for wiping out individuality, for describing aggregates only through sums and averages. However, in the 1960s, especially in France, techniques of…
Issue 8 Hacks, Leaks, and Breaches »Survival of the Cryptic…condition, Simmel argued, following from the idea that every citizen is responsible for informing themselves about their government as a precondition for participating in it. A decade before the formation…