internet

April 22, 2010

Internet testing limits of debate in Indonesia

The New York Times notes how Indonesia is trying to regulate content on the Internet and a scrap is developing between it and Indonesia’s news media.

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March 9, 2010

Web-savvy refugees in Kenya

Fast Company reports how Samasource is bringing digital economy jobs to camp dwellers in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp (pop. 300,000).

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March 4, 2010

From 1995: why the Internet will fail

A failed prediction: “No online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.” – Clifford Stoll, Newsweek, Feb 27, 1995

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March 3, 2010

Using the Internet to evangelize World A

1 in 4 Facebook Users Come From Asia or the Middle East. Once I wrote it was unlikely the Internet could be used successfully to reach unreached peoples. Perhaps the day that proves me wrong is close, if not already at hand.

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March 3, 2010

Structure of Sin: Botnets

Spanish police have arrested three men responsible for one of the world’s biggest networks of virus-infected computers. On BBC.

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March 3, 2010

The future of web browsing?

A stunning new technology for surfing numeric and contextual data and deriving insights from it shown on TED.com.

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February 2, 1999

The impact of the Internet on Asia

In the May 1999 issue of Wired magazine, a large article was devoted to Richard Li, the second son of Li Ka-Shing and heir to $10 billion fortune. Through a joint venture with Intel, Li developing and marketing a TV-interface which will enable anyone in Asia with a television to access the Internet, using a [...]

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July 1, 1996

Using the Internet to evangelize World A?

The idea of using the Internet to evangelize has been bandied about for some time, but these are for the most part only affecting people who have already heard the Gospel.

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