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FacebookNovember 17th, 2011
d.school uses mobile technology for social issues in Kenya
Program on Liberation Technology NewsThe November 17 Liberation Technology Seminar was co-hosted by the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), a nonpartisan economic policy research organization that unites remarkable economic talent from all parts of Stanford University. This seminar featured four student-led design projects that were created in the Designing Liberation Technologies course taught each spring at Stanford's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) by professors' Josh Cohen and Terry Winograd. Read more »
March 3rd, 2011
Fung on why technology hasn't revolutionized politics
Program on Liberation Technology NewsArchon Fung, Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship at the Harvard Kennedy School, delivered the March 3 Liberation Technology seminar titled, Why Technology Hasn't Revolutionized Politics, But How it Can Give a Little Help to Our Friends. 
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February 10th, 2011
Hoffmann and Jeon on using ICT for clean water in Kibera
Program on Liberation Technology NewsThe February 10 Liberation Technology seminar titled, Can ICT Improve Clean Water Delivery Systems in Slums? Lessons from Kibera was led by two Stanford students, Katherine Hoffman, M.A. Candidate in International Policy Studies and Global Health together with Sunny Jeon, PhD candidate in Political Science. Hoffman and Jeon presented on the topic of the M-Maji system, a start-up non-profit project that uses mobile phones to empower communities with better information about water availability, price, and quality. M-Maji emerged from the Designing Liberation Technologies course taught at the Stanford d.school, which is dedicated to using mobile phone technology for health improvement in Kibera. Read more »
February 3rd, 2011
Subramanian on information access under poor connectivity
Program on Liberation Technology NewsLakshminarayanan Subramanian, Assistant Professor in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU, delivered the February 3 Liberation Technology seminar on the topic of Information Access Under Poor Connectivity. Subramanian discussed the challenges facing many people in the developing world who are unable to access information where bandwidth connectivity is very low, making download time much longer and the web more unusable. Video available
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September 23rd, 2010
Josh Cohen: mobile development meets design thinking
PGJ, Program on Liberation Technology in the newsJoshua Cohen, Professor of Political Science, Philosophy and Law at Stanford University, began the first session of this quarter's Seminar on Liberation Technologies by posing a big question: are information and communication technologies able to advance human well-being for development? After all, Mobile ICT has potential to be a good thing for development for a multitude of reasons. First, as Solow's model of growth has shown, technological innovation tends to be good for growth. Second, economic growth is closely related to development. Third, mobile phone usage is rapidly growing and indigenous in much of the world, which means that new technologies do not need to be "parachuted" in to scenarios where they are not matched to local needs. Finally, there is high mobile penetration today, even in low-income settings. Video available
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February 17th, 2010
Firoze Manji on challenges using new media to support social justice movements in Africa
Program on Liberation Technology NewsFiroze Manji is founding Executive Director of Fahamu - Networks for Social Justice, a pan African organization with offices in Kenya, Senegal, South Africa and the UK.
Fahamu exists to support the development and growth of a powerful social justice movement in Africa. There are three core areas of activity: 
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October 29th, 2009
Matt Halprin and Stephen King on using technology to catalyze large-scale social change
Program on Liberation Technology NewsMatt Halprin is a Partner leading Omidyar Network's Media and Stephen King is the Director of Investments and is based in London. They introduced us to the work of Omidyar Network which invests in market-based efforts to give people the technology tools they need to improve their lives. 
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