All Posts
Side effects of Public Administrations using WhatsApp
Or any other similar service, actually. Here is just one small example from Mumbai.
Indian companies learning about file formats the hard way
Some Indian companies recently got a lesson about file formats that the WHOLE world needs to learn. But it is a lesson that is at least ten years old.
Guess who may be testing new payment systems in India
Two months ago I signalled that little or no regulation may leave a powerful company free to not only lock up emerging markets in Asia, but also to control, in the same areas, new payment systems or distribution of information over mobile phones. That was two months ago.
What everybody can and SHOULD learn by READING about Aadhaar
Aadhaar is India’s digital identity system. By reading the right stuff about Aadhaar everybody, no matter where he or she lives, may learn a lot about crucial stuff like Free/Open Source software, Open Government and Open Data.
From loneliness to smart cities, in one sentence
A very interesting article from India says, among other things, something we in so-called “first world” countries already knew, but says it well:
Of high-tech companies, and fablab potential in Trivandrum
Last month I visited Trivandrum for the Swatantra17 Conference. I already wrote about that event, but I saw more in Trivandrum.