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For countries such as Kenya to emerge as economic powerhouses, they need better infrastructure: roads, ports, smart grids and power plants. Infrastructure is expensive, and takes a long time to build. In the meantime, hackers are building 'grassroots infrastructure,' using the mobile-phone system to build solutions that are ready for market.

~Ethan Zuckerman

Topics: Better Build Building Countries Economic Emerge Expensive Grassroots Hackers Infrastructure Kenya Long Long Time Market Meantime Need Plants Ports Power Ready Roads Smart Solutions System Takes Time Using

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Creativity is an import-export business.

~Ethan Zuckerman

Topics: Business Creativity

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Teenagers try to hide what's really going on in their communication online.

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Topics: Communication Going Hide Online Really Teenagers Try

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Reading the text of my blog itself is not really the interesting part. The exciting part is how the Internet allows me to be the eyes and ears for the people sending me postings from Africa.

~Ethan Zuckerman

Topics: Africa Blog Ears Exciting Eyes For The People How Interesting Internet Itself Me Part People Reading Really Sending Text

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The U.S. media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world.

~Ethan Zuckerman

Topics: Arab Arab World Done Job Media Reporting Shameful World

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I can imagine Iceland becoming a good place to run a controversial Web site. But... Iceland may find itself forced to defend controversial speech.

~Ethan Zuckerman

Topics: Becoming Controversial Defend Find Forced Good Good Place Iceland Imagine Itself May Place Run Site Speech Web Web Site I Can

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The Internet has become a bunch of interlinked but linguistically distinct and culturally specific spaces. There's some interface between them, but there's a lot less than there was years back when we were sort of pretending that this was one great global space.

~Ethan Zuckerman

Topics: Back Become Between Bunch Distinct Global Great Interface Internet Less Lot Pretending Some Sort Space Spaces Specific Than Them Were Years

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The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal.

~Ethan Zuckerman

Topics: Africa Mobile Mobile Phones Phenomenal Phones

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It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power.

~Ethan Zuckerman

Topics: Africa Become Cell Commonplace Corners Coverage Electrical Find Good Power Relatively

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You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.

~Ethan Zuckerman

Topics: About Because Case Feel Important Make Makes Movement Part People Talk You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: Unknown

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