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The Web In Translation

Over the past few months I have come to appreciate how difficult navigating the web in a second language can be.

Media, Social Impact

The Paper Book is Dead…

As laptops have replaced typewriters will e-books replace paper books?

Infrastructure, Social Impact

Mobile Broadband

Is mobile broadband valuable to low-income consumers?

Infrastructure

Energy & The National Broadband Plan

“The federal government should take a leadership role in improving the energy efficiency of its data centers.”

Media

Visual Research Tools

Outfitted with two digital photo cameras we snapped hundreds of images in our visits around the country.

Policy, Portfolio, Social Impact

Broadband Adoption in Low-Income Communities

Our report on broadband adoption commissioned by the FCC is now available from the Social Science Research Council.

Information Systems, Infrastructure, Manufacturing, Policy, Social Impact

Four Conversations on Greening ICT

Two architects, an artist, an analyst and an activist go deep on the promises and perils of information and communication technologies vis-à-vis the environment.

Social Impact

In Praise of Payphones

While our mobile phone culture seems to be contributing to the swift death of payphones, there are times when they are nice to have.

Media

Electronic Farming

During our recent research investigating broadband use for the Federal Communications Commission we heard a lot about the Facebook application FarmVille from people across the country.

Manufacturing, Policy

Casey Harrell of Greenpeace on Greener Electronics

“It’s not Greenpeace versus the IT industry. It’s the IT industry versus some of the laggards in the IT industry.”

Manufacturing

Misty Keasler on e-waste

“In Lagos, Nigeria trash isn’t separated, and the e-waste goes to one of seven dumps. I spent time in two of them.”

Notes

  • ABryne: Green IT for Dummies “gives organizations simple and straight-forward ideas on how to reduce the...
  • ABryne: The Greener Gadgets competition submissions are in! See the website for details....
  • ABryne: Broken City Lab in Windsor, Ontario has a similar post, on visualizing energy consumption....