Last week, I was in Moscow doing research for a ConsumerLab project. I met some really interesting and creative people there. From bloggers who were improving the traffic situation to those working to improve the public’s history knowledge, it was great to see people generating content to change their communities.
This week, during the Broadband Leadership Summit and ITU Telecom World 2011, it was great to see how far the Broadband Commission for Digital Development has come since its creation in 2010. The Commission is now well-recognized as an important advocate of broadband deployment as a key enabler to development.
I’ve been writing a lot lately on Facebook, sharing the results of a recent study conducted by ConsumerLab looking at the behavior of Swedish teenagers. In the next installment of my Facebook posts, I explain how the platform is just as important to social life today as the village square was in the past.
In my last post, I discussed how Facebook has expanded our contact circles and that the ‘new’ communication channels created by the social networking platform are used differently depending on who is being contacted. Today, I will describe what these channels are, and how they are used.
When researching consumer behavior, we have been using the concept of communication circles for about 10 years. The main change from then to now is that people today have a completely new tool to reach out and stay in touch: Facebook.
As cities grow, so do the problems they face. An important lesson from Day Two of the Economist-hosted and Ericsson-sponsored Future Cities event in Stockholm is that cities are innovative hubs, capable of solving the very issues created by their size.
What we learn from gatherings like the Future Cities conference is that there is no shortage of cool ideas. In two equally energetic but visually contrasting keynotes, we heard about the power of creativity that only cities can foster.
It’s hot to talk about urbanization. People are moving into cities at an astounding rate: somewhere in the world, around 7500 people are moving to a city every HOUR. The resulting problems that move along with that population explosion – think not only traffic, think jobs, social services, not to mention garbage - many if [...]
Is understanding of the logics of the internet and coding the new English?
Users are using their smartphones to access the internet. This is no surprise. But what is surprising is the rate at which this is happening. Mobile data traffic has doubled from the second quarter of 2010 to the second quarter of 2011.
