ISBN:
9781610395281
Language:
English
Pages:
xvi, 334 p.
Edition:
1. ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.483
Keywords:
Electronic books
;
Social change
;
Technological innovations / Economic aspects
;
Technological innovations / Social aspects
;
Gesellschaft
;
Technische Innovation
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Technische Innovation
;
Sozialer Wandel
Abstract:
INTRODUCTION; 1. No Laptop Left Behind; 2. The Law of Amplification; 3. Geek Myths Debunked; 4. Shrink-Wrapped Quick Fixes; 5. Technocratic Orthodoxy; 6. Amplifying People; 7. A Different Kind of Upgrade; 8. Hierarchy of Aspirations; 9. "Gross National Wisdom"; 10. Nurturing Change; Conclusion; APPENDIX: HIGHLIGHTED NONPROFITS; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX
Abstract:
In 2004, Kentaro Toyama, an award-winning computer scientist, moved to India to start a new research group for Microsoft. Its mission: to explore novel technological solutions to the world's persistent social problems. Together with his team, he invented electronic devices for under-resourced urban schools and developed digital platforms for remote agrarian communities. But after a decade of designing technologies for humanitarian causes, Toyama concluded that no technology, however dazzling, could cause social change on its own.Technologists and policy-makers love to boast about modern innova
