Technology
World Siliconization
Éric Sadin
The irresistible expansion of digital liberalism points towards regulating, for the sole purpose of benefit, the course of life through algorithms.
Storytelling
Walking: A Thought Laboratory
Jorge Carrión
We’ve known it for centuries, but now it has been demonstrated by science and so seems to be even more certain than before. Walking stimulates creativity and thinking.
Planet
10 Proposals to Fight Climate Change through Culture
The finalists of the Cultural Innovation International Prize offer us different ways to spread awareness and to address climate change.
Commons
Virtual Networks, Open Science and Digital Revolutions
Guillermo Orts-Gil
Interview with Ijad Madisch, co-founder and CEO of the world’s largest online network for scientists.
Technology
The Maker Culture in China (III): Hands-On, for Economic and Social Progress
Sandra Álvaro
The spirit of learning by doing and the free experimentation that characterise maker processes are keys to renewing the idea of “made in China”.
Technology
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.
Technology
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.
Technology
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.
Technology
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.
Technology
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.
Culture
Losers Create Things Too
Rubén Martínez
Music can be a stimulus for personal or collaborative reflection on the act of creation.
Culture
#Museumnext 2014: Be brave, take risks
Clara Bofill
After a decade of museums 2.0, the time has come to become truly digital. But it is also time to find a balance between technophobia and technophilia.