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The Maker Culture in China (II): Shanzhai, Emerging Innovation in an Open Manufacturing Ecosystem
Sandra Álvaro
China offers an alternative for taking maker culture out of the field of entertainment and into the market. Shanzhai, a think tank focusing on open innovation.
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The Maker Culture in China (I): XinCheJian, a Chinese-style Hackerspace
Sandra Álvaro
XinCheJian is the first hackerspace founded in China, a space where making meets creation.
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The Other Net Behind the Great Wall (II)
Sandra Álvaro
Chinanet is an autonomous internet, separated from the rest of the word and characterised by a different usage that is more about performance than participation.
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The Other Net Behind the Great Wall (I)
Sandra Álvaro
China’s cultural heritage, along with the strong control mechanisms that accompany the process of opening up have led to the development of Chinanet.
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Reclaiming the City through Play
Cristina Sáez
The use of new technologies in cities through play is a way of putting the use of public space back in the hands of citizens.
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Africa Recycles and Creates Technology
Carlos Bajo
In the midst of e-waste traffickers, Africans are endeavouring to find ways to breathe new life into these discarded materials.
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Privacy and Innovation: an Impossible Equation?
Gemma Galdon
Respecting the legal framework and the needs and desires of citizens and consumers is a basic prerequisite for the success of any new product or initiative.
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Web 2.0 Ten Years On
Juan Insua
A decade later, we can confirm the far-reaching nature of the radical changes provoked by this phenomenon, which has two sides that merit reflection.
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Digital Africa. A developing ecosystem
Carlos Bajo
There is an Africa that innovates and looks to ICTs as a means to solve its problems through a citizen-led process.
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Back to the Future: The Internet of Everything
Cristina Sáez
Can you imagine an alarm clock that decides to wake you up 10 minutes earlier because it knows you have a meeting first thing and there’s a traffic jam?
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Internet. Visions of 1998
Report shot in 1998 where people is asked about Internet and its futu
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(In)Net: in the Mirage of Social Networks
Mª Ángeles Cabré
Are social networks a new tool for women’s empowerment? Or are they incapable of deactivating the mechanisms of inequality?