What can the future do for you?
Lift works to identify and anticipate current and emerging usagesof digital technologies through research, events, publications and services.
Vint Cerf, considered the "father of the internet", wrote in a recent column that Internet is not a human right, but an enabler of rights. The capacities it gives us - to communicate, organize and publicize everywhere - have been used for business and fun, but also for development and crisis response. This session will explore these last two aspects, and show the possibilities and the limitations too.
What are the desirable qualities in a communication network?
Affordability, ubiquity, reliability, privacy, convenience. In the
developing world, mobile networks are delivering ...
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Marcel Kampman presented his Project Dreamschool at Lift in 2011. Lots has happened since, and the project is getting more and more concrete. Marcel will give us a quick update, and show the first pictures of the school.
Farida Vis has studied 2.6M tweets sent during the UK riots. She will give us a detailed and documented account of what happened. You will see that the early conclusions governing bodies jumped to are not very accurate...
Kevin Anderson and Lift founder Laurent Haug will discuss social media's use for humanitarian disasters such as the earthquake in Haiti. The discussion will then center on ...
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David Rowan thinks Africa is the next place where great technological innovations will happen. He will explain how startup entrepreneurs should move there.
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