Articles by Kate Krontiris
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Wednesday
November 14
2012Portrait of our Times: Women, Technology, and Inclusivity in the City
We have made great strides in data-driven urban planning, but as we imagine and build our way to smarter futures, we must remember that many still live “off the grid” and can easily fall prey to human trafficking. Thus, we must be imaginative and proactive in engaging with those who are not represented in data we have.
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- Technology
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Tuesday
October 30
2012‘If You Break It, You Fix It’ and Other Creeds of the Young Makers Among Us
The makers: These are people who see a need for something in their own lives — or the lives of their neighbors, or schoolmates, or industry peers — and instead of complaining, or buying something, they make it. They make alternative energy, and bicycles, and computers, and crafts, and food, and furniture, and GPS devices, and robots, and tools, and toys, and wearable devices, and magic.
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- Education, Technology
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Thursday
October 25
2012Testing Assumptions About Women and Technology
Many at LifeSpring, including outreach workers themselves, agree that the hospital could benefit from digitally collecting information about its clients. But nobody was very excited about trying it. The reason: Most existing mobile health (mhealth) solutions are built on SMS (short message services, or simply text message) platforms, and LifeSpring was not confident about its outreach workers’ ability to use text messaging – or even about their ability to navigate and comprehend a text-based data collection system.
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- Education, Technology
