Interviews on ICT4Peace, Sahana and Humanitarian FOSS, New Media and Disaster Management and Second Life

All the following conversations took place in August 2006 during Strong Angel III. 

• Interview with Mark Frohardt from INTERNEWS  (for related blog post with more details see here)
• Interview with Kimberly Rufer-Bbach, who does amazing things with Second Life (for related blog post with more details see here)
• Interview with Daniel Stauffacher, Chairman, ICT4Peace Foundation (for related blog post with more details see here)
• Interview with Chamindra de Silva, the brains behind Sahana (for related blog post with more details see here)
• Conversation with Dan Gilmor (for related blog post with more details see here)

Cuba’s new found freedom – PCs and blogs

You can now buy a PC in Havana. I wonder what Hemingway would have said to that after one of his (in)famous binges at El Floridita. 

I also wonder whether Castro & Co. know what they’ve really done. Open the sluice gates of communications and it’s impossible to shut them again. Blogs like Generacion Y and others suggest that long before PC’s and mobile phones were legit, some Cubans were using the web to question the status quo. This will now only grow.

Cuba 2.0 will be an interesting social, political and economic experiment to watch. How different will it be I wonder to Fidel’s omnipresence in the past, now fast fading? 

The past and the future – Digital cameras and mobile phones

Kodak has an image of its and the world’s first digital camera, developed in the early 70’s. 

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Looking at this, Vodafone’s vision of the future of mobile phones seems almost conservative. 

I wonder what the miniaturization and ubiquity of these digital devices will mean for peacebuilding?