Tryggvi Thayer, Ph.D.
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Category Archives: Information Society
Broadband access becomes a legal right in Finland
Finland recently became the first country in the world make access to highspeed Internet a legal right. International institutions like the UN hafa promoted access to communications technology as a human right at least since UNESCO’s MacBride Report (Many Voices … Continue reading
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Teens and social networking
Social networking researcher danah boyd (yes, she likes to have it without caps) has shared some questions that she has gotten from people on US teenagers and their use of social networking sites and her responses. Her very short and … Continue reading
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Wolfram|Alpha “computational knowledge engine”
For people that may have missed this despite all of the recent buzz, the Wolfram|Alpha “computational knowledge engine” is supposed to be launched sometime this month (May, 2009). Wolfram|Alpha is a search engine that will take various types of input … Continue reading
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Encyclopedia Britannica will open up – just a little bit.
Encyclopedia Britannica (EB) seems to have decided that the general public might just be a useful resource for gathering the knowledge of the world. Several years ago they were none too happy with Nature’s evidence-based claim that Wikipedia was no … Continue reading
“Digital Youth Project” – Youth and knowledge development networks
The MacArthur Foundation has published a report on the “Digital Youth Project”. This is a fascinating report on the findings of a research project that looked at young people’s informal use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and what they … Continue reading
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Is the mobile web all good?
The BBC News site ran an article yesterday about the spread of the mobile web. Nothing surprising about that, it is the big buzz these days. I guess what is noteworthy now is that the “big” corporations (in this case … Continue reading
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