Stories about Case Studies

Dueling Encyclopedias: Using Weibo to Boost Wikipedia in China

  20 January 2014

Finding information online in China may mean using the popular for-profit online encyclopeida Baidu, rather than the open-source Wikipedia. Editor Addis Wang aims to increase awareness in China about Wikipedia (and its knowledge-sharing ethos) using social media with the popular app Weibo.

Training Videos by Farmers, for Farmers

  15 January 2014

Digital Green integrates innovative technology with global development efforts to improve human wellbeing through the use of videos in the community for agricultural and health improvements.

Diferencial CAC: A Hacklab in Quito, Ecuador

  7 January 2014

Diferencial CAC is a space for art and digital culture projects, a hackerspace, a coworking space, and a transmitter of all kinds of collaborative and technological ideas located at the Contemporary Art Center in Quito. A video tour and interviews with the founder.

Story-Making Machines: Meograph

  16 December 2013

Rising Voices republishes an interview conducted by Transom.org, who spoke with Misha Leybovich, the founder and CEO of Meograph - "Four-dimensional storytelling".

guifi.net, Spain's Wildly Successful DIY Wireless Network

  11 December 2013

At any given moment in Spain, there are thousands of people surfing the Internet. But more and more Spaniards are opting for a kind of parallel Internet, one that avoids the high costs of commercial Internet Service Providers and bridges the digital divide.

Mapping for Niger Profile: Abdou Salam

  12 November 2013

Meet geography student Abdou Salam, one of the participants in the Mapping for Niger project. With the project, he's gone back to his hometown to map the major coordinates of the area and put them online with Open Street Map.

Mapping for Niger Profiles: Fatiman Alher

  8 November 2013

Meet one of the participants in the Mapping for Niger project, Fatiman, who has developed practical digital skills and applies these to her geography studies. The digital cartography, she says, helps her to learn about visualising information.

Digital Revolution in Reverse: Syria’s Media Diversifies Offline

  30 October 2013

Though digital media was key in the uprisings of the Arab Spring, today, analog media has made a comeback. Under an Internet blackout, citizen media activists are working to spread information both abroad and inside the country, through a combination of digital and traditional methods.