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Know Your Customer

30 Nov 2013
In: Cultural Norms
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In most countries consumers can buy pre-paid cards after presenting some form of identification, so-called KYC (Know Your Customer) requirements. In Saudi Arabia that identification …
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vivacell

14 Jul 2012
In: Cultural Norms, Kajo Keji
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Pre-Caching Behaviours

12 Apr 2010
In: Design Inspiration, Tibet
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Train across the Tibetan Plateau – being out in remoter climes makes for a good place to test mapping software. Unsurprisingly this is not a …
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Manufactured Palms

08 Apr 2010
In: Cultural Norms, Salton Sea
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Yet another mobile phone cell tower this time disguised as a palm tree – from a dawn sojourn through the southern California desert.
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Art in the Community

Designers are often striving for purity of form – objects stripped down to their essence. But what happens when the purest form is for a …
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The Price of Privacy

01 Jul 2007
In: Cultural Norms, Mumbai
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Using local contact numbers during the field research lowers the communication barrier for would-be participants – and the arrival in a new city heralds in …
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