The buzz around satellite imagery over the past few years has grown increasingly loud. Google Earth, drones, and microsatellites have grabbed headlines and slashed price tags. Urban planners are…
Also available in: Spanish Residents in La Paz use mobile phones to practice submitting feedback to their municipal government via the Barrio Digital tool. (Photo: Barrios de Verdad team) [[…
Photo: Pierre-Yves Babelon/Shutterstock In an effort to harness the benefits of urbanization and improve the living conditions of the urban poor, Latin American countries have experimented with…
What will reading be like for children around the world in the digital age? Ben Bederson thinks this is a question we should be asking children themselves. Bederson, a professor at the University…
A quick check of the user logs for the World Bank's EduTech blog shows that postings on the use of mobile phones in education consistently draw the most readers. While highlighting the new…
Amazon, the company behind the Kindle, perhaps the world's most famous e-reader, recently announced an international version of its digital book reading device that will allow users to…
It's been four years since the The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project (known then as the '$100 laptop) was announced. According to recent unconfirmed news reports from India, one …