Interrelativity

Category: Africa

  • I Am Because We Are: African Wisdom in Image and Proverb

    We are all interconnected and we have responsibility for each other. This is the interpretation of the Swahili word, ubuntu, offered near the start of a short, inspiring interview with photographer Betty Press by NPR Weekend Edition Sunday host, Audie Cornish two weeks ago. The interview focused on the incredible photographs celebrating the lives of…

  • Pop!Tech 2007: An Expanded Vocabulary (and Perspective)

    OK, in my last entry on Pop!Tech, I wrote that I would only be posting one more “highlights” entry … but I just had to include one more … in part because I am afraid that however much I might condense my 47 pages of notes (in a Word document), no one will ever have…

  • Universal, Empowerment, Partnership (Pop!Tech 2007 pre-conference session)

    Michele Bowman, the host for our Pop!Tech pre-conference Wednesday afternoon session on "The Future of Mobility", started off the session by inviting each of the 40 attendees – and the three panelists -  to introduce themselves by stating their names followed by up to three words (a "three word introduction" of sorts). It was a…

  • Communities & Technologies Conference (C&T 2007): Socializing and Sociologizing on the Web

    The 3rd International Conference on Communities and Technologies (C&T 2007) – or cct2007, on Flickr and Slideshare – was held at Michigan State University two weeks ago. [Update: proceedings are now online.] Among the high order bits for me were the growing trend in analyzing data from normal use of large-scale social networking services (vs.…

  • Africa is the New Black

    If I were to highlight one [more] theme that emerged at Foo Camp 2007 (having already noted the themes of passion, privilege, scalability and desirability as well as attention, inattention, appreciation and depreciation), it would be that Africa is the new black, i.e., an area of increasingly popular, perhaps even fashionable, interest. There were three…