Category Archives: Communications
Public Transit Adds Data Points
Here in DC, WMATA (Washington Metro Area Transit Authority) has started putting up signs at all its bus stops that have a unique stop number on them. What this number symbolizes is a unique ID that riders and WMATA operators … Continue reading
Filed under Communications, Computers, Design, Government, Internet, Openness, Policy, Tech, Web
My Tech Policy Memo to President-Elect Obama
For my excellent “What’s Shaping the Internet?” class with Professor Michael Nelson, we had to write a 6-page memorandum to either President-Elect Obama, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, or some other organization head, using three main policy points. I chose to … Continue reading
Filed under Business, Communications, Government, Internet, Openness, Policy, Politics, Privacy, Reputation, Tech, Web
The Digital Africa Surprise
For my African Development class, I was required to write a 15-page paper on some aspect of African economic development. I chose to write about converging factors, such as the east coast Africa backbone coming online, the cloud, and cheap … Continue reading
Filed under Africa, Communications, Computers, Economics, Education, Globalization, Government, International Affairs, Internet, Mobile, Policy, Tech, Web
Webheads for Africa
This is an aside but today’s market rally (Dow +936) was astounding. I barely made any money though (sadface) because most of the move was on a gap up and I think you would’ve had to be suicidal to buy … Continue reading
Filed under Communications, Development, International Affairs, Internet, Policy, Web
Optimism
So the G7 is meeting up with Dubya this weekend and so far nothing substantial has been announced. These people are useless. Dubya gets wheeled out to give a clueless speech that inspires no confidence. If anything, it encourages fear. … Continue reading
Filed under Business, Communications, Economics, Internet, Policy, Stock Market, Tech, Web
My Paper on American and Japanese 3G Networks
I wanted to post the paper I wrote for my “political economy of international communications policy” class last semester (Spring, ’08). The topic of my research was how the build-outs of the networks in the US and Japan along with … Continue reading
Stereotyping Grad Programs
In my “What’s Shaping the Internet?” class last week, we were talking about universal communication access briefly when the only MBA student in the class commented that he thought it was all a waste of money and that he believed … Continue reading
Filed under Business, Communications, Education, Policy, Security
