Ssiiiihht: that’s the sound that a consumer makes when she buys a spare phone/laptop charger – the sharp intake of breathe that comes from …
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Sometimes project goals suggest particularly extensive travel – either driven by the need to have on the ground experience of a broad spectrum of geographies, …
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14 hours from Lhasa to Golmud, one power socket in the carriage alternately occupied by the guards laptop and the guards printer. Infrastructure is: what …
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How you know whether something is really, absolutely working as planned? Light bulbs on the front of a mobile phone recharging stall in Kabul.
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A quick stopover in Frankfurt on the way home means: catching up with relatives via telephone – there’s nothing like being within the same national …
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This Akasaka coffee shop includes a row of accessible power sockets (running a long the edge of the window) primarily to support laptop use – …
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Power cuts are a daily fact of life in Uganda so it’s no surprise that power, or lack of power has affected the field study …
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