by Craig Cisero, Roberta Tassi | Jan 13, 2017 | Paper
Emerging technologies such as drones, sensors, mesh networks and IoT have significant potential to bring new life-changing services and benefits to places where infrastructure and ICT access is still limited. Nevertheless, many companies have already failed in the...
by Shriram Venkatraman, Nimmi Rangaswamy | Jan 13, 2017 | Paper
This paper explores how the ‘Free Basics’ initiative in India got transformed into a national debate on ‘net neutrality’ principle and finally led to it being banned in India. Further, this paper will also use ethnographic data to analyse how this ‘controversial’...
by Maria Cury, Daniel Bird | Jan 13, 2017 | Paper
In applied ethnographic praxis, how should we use theory? Exploring how existing theory from a variety of domains has supported and advanced our work, this paper justifies and demonstrates how theory can be used in an accessible and practical manner when framing...
by Julia Katherine Haines | Jan 13, 2017 | Paper
The aim of this paper is to explore the potential for ethnographic approaches in technology startups and the venture capital firms that support and control them. The current practices and model of innovation aim for “disruptive innovation,” but most efforts fall...
by Sakari Tamminen, Elisabet Holmgren | Jan 13, 2017 | Paper
A wide range of new digital products lumped together under the category of ‘Wearables’ or ‘Wearable Technology’ raises fundamental questions about the way we think about our individual bodies and the species Homo Sapiens. This paper traces three different...
