What is Design Public?
Design Public is a series of conversations about design and innovation in the public interest.This blog is curated by the Center for Knowledge Societies, the innovation consulting firm that guides the establishment of the Adianta School for Leadership and Innovation.
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Tag Archives: internet
On Technology and Social Innovation
Oftentimes, when we’re talking about innovation, what it is and how it can be learnt or taught (which happens often over the lunch table here in our office), we end up talking about the different kinds of innovation – technological, … Continue reading
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Tagged internet, mobile phones, social innovation, technology
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Joi Ito: The Internet, Innovation and Learning
via @joi On this cold Monday morning in Delhi, I came across an inspiring piece of writing by Joi Ito where he talks about the internet not just as a technology, but as a “belief system, a philosophy.” Ito writes … Continue reading
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Tagged Adiantas, collaboration, innovation, internet, Joi Ito, learning, MIT media lab
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On the Informationalization of Everything
Social media have been the focus of debates, discussions and academic as well as journalistic papers for some time now, and it seems that there is always something new to be said, something new to be discovered about how this … Continue reading
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Tagged David Weinberger, digitization, information, internet, knowledge, social media
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WikiLeaks, State Secrets, and Trust in Government
When WikiLeaks released hundreds of thousands of classified documents on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and State Department memos, the world was forced to consider, How much do we trust our governments? WikiLeaks, a whistleblowing website, says “We believe … Continue reading
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Tagged america, cables, designpublic, government, innovation, internet, Journalism, participation, poltics, secret, trust, usa, whistleblowing, wikileaks
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SOPA, PIPA, and the Crisis of Trust
Yesterday saw a ‘blackout’ of several popular websites, including Wikipedia and Reddit, whilst other popular websites like Google and Craigslist displayed messages on their homepages, protesting against two separate anti-censorship bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect … Continue reading
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Tagged access to information, censorship, craigslist, crisis of trust, facebook, google, internet, pipa, protest, reddit, right to expression, sopa, trust, wikipedia, youtube, zuckerberg
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Technology and the New Digital Individual – Liberation or Enslavement?
The many revolutions happening around the world, from Ramlila Maidan to Tahrir Square, have been, or are being, at least in part fueled and propelled by the technologies we use, especially online social media. And at the same time, governments … Continue reading
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Tagged collaboration, crisis of trust, digital individual, Egypt, innovation, internet, protest, public, Tahrir Square, technology, trust
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