This school in Apia, Samoa uses thin-client computing to reduce the cost of running its student computing labs. The school uses hand-made monitor covers to protect against salt spray from the ocean. The lab is four years old and as performance degrades the school simply upgrades the single server that runs the lab.
On July 14, 2009, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University would conduct an independent expert review of existing literature and studies about broadband deployment and usage throughout the world and that this project would help inform the FCC’s efforts in developing the National Broadband Plan. The Berkman Center’s Final Report was submitted to the FCC on February 16, 2010.
This project was generously supported by the Ford Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Download the full report here
This animation was produced by Twitter employee Miguel Rios. It traces the path of Twitter messages following the Japan earthquake. The paths in pink correspond to message that were tweeted, while green paths correspond to those messages re-tweeted.
See the animation here.
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s Yochai Benkler and Aaron Shaw discuss the political effects of the Internet and networked discourse. Download the study here.
This series of working papers curated by the University of Manchester covers a wide range of topics in ICTD. Visit the collection here.