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Repost: http://www.cis-india.org/research/dn/dnrep
The Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore and Hivos have assessed the state of knowledge on the potential impact of youth for social transformation and political engagement in the South. This report ‘Digital Natives with a Cause?’ charts the scholarship and practice of youth and technology and informs further research and intervention within diverse [...]

About Apple’s iPad via here and via iWorry …
“iWorry” is my foray into the iPad discussion, focusing less on the product and more on its support infrastructure:
But the iPad isn’t a phone; it is a general purpose computer. It does email and Web and documents and presentations and games and all of the other [...]

Karen doesn’t need to tell Gen Y to shut up and shop … Where is Karen?
Read more at The Age - Get Y @ 30 … Here’s what their sample looks like:

It’d be interesting to read about India’s Gen Y or China’s Gen Y.

GML = Graffiti Markup Language from Evan Roth on Vimeo.
Original vimeo link also see the open database for GML

By Moska Najib  [...]

At this moment, 61,199 members have joined the group - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=219739857206&ref=mf
This group was formed to condemn the behaviour of a lone numbskull who has just dragged Nigeria’s already sodden image more into the mud. Folks, this is not a group to speak about religion…we are talking about someone who is either mad, or a moron….and [...]

I keep forgetting their names - Victor Turner and Clifford Geertz … In 1993, I was planning to become an casual athropologist…
I remember the stuff on ritual was closely connected with festivals - often when there was a temporary inversion of social structure/order… The poor dressed up as the rich in big parades funded [...]

Watch out Does this mean more suicide bombers and machete wielding tall black men? Or a new generation equipped with a deep understanding of what it means to be on the outside and know how to win the hearts and minds of a scared minority and introduce the ideas and knowledge needed to re-shape [...]