Another Story that I wrote for Hana: Things have progressed since the $100 laptop prototype was first publicly unveiled at a press conference with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte at last year’s second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis, Tunisia. What was then just a garish [...]

NOTE: This was supposed to be posted two days ago, but the Wireless was broken so it appears here more as an archive of my trip… So last night all the iSummit delegates attended a Samba night at the Rio Scenarium in downtown Rio, a beautiful and historical part of the city. This place was [...]

It was only a matter of time before the music industry realised the positive potential of Creative Commons and the Internet as a distributing playground (as long as you’re smart as to what is being distributed that is!). It’s no real surprise that the musicians pioneering this initiative happen to be my mother’s favourite band [...]