Airports, Duty-Free Shops and the Web
After the pandemic hiatus, flying internationally is back in its full mode. Airports are busy again and travelers have returned to this particular kind of place...
Tag: economy
Building the Internet of Trust: Reflections after the #IGF2018
Not that long ago governments around the world tried by multiple means to spread Internet connectivity across their territories with the goal of transitioning i...
Youth Labor and the Paradoxes of the Digital Economy
Since she was a sixteen, Mariand Castrejon has been producing videos in Spanish about beauty and lifestye, and sharing them on YouTube. Today, at the age of 25,...
Diffusing Innovations
From the study of the spread of a hybrid corn seed among U.S. Midwestern farmers to the examination of the adoption of computer centers among the urban poor in ...
Why does Digital Citizenship Matter?
In the digital age the notion of citizenship is being redefined in multiple ways as new possibilities for civic action appear in the interaction of users, techn...
Taxi Drivers Protesting the Platform Economy
Where do citizens go to raise concerns about the platform economy? Where do Taxi drivers go if they want to protest against the non-regulatory practices of Uber...
One More Reason Not to Use Uber
I avoided using the transportation services of Uber for several years given the labor and privacy practices of the company. Earlier this summer, however, I deci...