The Digiens@u-City blog has a great post that outlines a 7-day tour itinerary for “digital Korea” that is a good way to get acquainted with both the top-down and bottom-up sides of Korea’s emerging digital/broadband culture. Continue reading
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International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has just released its new statistics on global broadband penetration per 100 inhabitants as of 1 January 2006. Iceland has taken over as this year’s leader from Korea with Netherlands, Denmark and Hong Kong, China rounding out the top five. Continue reading
The Digital City conference helps community leaders to understand the impact that true broadband can have on a community. Continue reading
Researchers at Microsoft are working on technology that they hope will someday enable people to browse online maps for up-to-the-minute information about local gas prices, traffic flows, restaurant wait times, and more. Continue reading
William J. Mitchell, Director of the Design Laboratory at MIT, writes about the emerging technologies that are poised to reshape our urban environments. Cities are fast transforming into artificial ecosystems of interconnected, interdependent intelligent digital organisms. This is the fundamentally new technological condition confronting architects and product designers in the twenty-first century. Continue reading
IBM’s Digital Communities Business Area Leader provides and overview of the evolution of Digital Communities by exploring infrastructure, government and public usage models, and the sustainability of the investment. Continue reading
New wireless communications technologies are changing the way we live and work. This fact is particularly evident at MIT, thanks to the presence of two conditions: 1) the very high percentage of laptop computer ownership on campus; and 2) the existence of one of the most pervasive wireless Internet Continue reading