The First ‘Smart Village’ in India: the Story of Creation

In a way, Mahatma Gandhi conceptualized smart villages. A champion of participatory democracy and grassroots development, he believed that making villages self-contained and sustainable was the first step towards empowering India. Seven decades after independence, India is nowhere close to realizing Gandhi’s vision of empowered villages. However, an example of Harisal, a small village in Read More

Monique Morrow – The Humanized Internet

By Monique J. Morrow, Co-Founder and President As a tenet The Humanized Internet [THI] is Human-centric Internet that empowers people, communities, societies and economies around the world. A self-organizing Humanized Internet where people are allowed to take control of their own destiny and unleash a whole new era of Personal Innovation, Creativity, and Free-Thinking Lifestyles. Read More

The Co-Inventor of Siri and Viv Focuses on Human Intelligence Augmentation in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

Eileen Clegg Within 12 years, could we see ‘The Singularity’ — the merging of human + machine? That’s the popular meme on the streets of Silicon Valley, but Adam Cheyer calls it unlikely. And Cheyer has a deep understanding of artificial intelligence (A.I.) as the co-inventor of Apple’s Siri and, more recently, Viv, a company Read More

What Makes Work Meaningful — Or Meaningless

Mei Lin Fung writes: “One reason to stay connected to the People Centered Internet is that we connect to each other and thrive ourselves by sharing a common goal: Connect to Thrive. This gives us meaning and purpose independent of everything else that is going on. It is not easy to stay connected – people Read More

Internet Affordability Report 2017

Roving reporter Katim Touray writes to us about this report: “Interestingly, The Gambia (my country) has relatively high marks in the report, although these numbers belie the reality on the ground: I might have a 1 MB ADSL connection, but I only get electricity from the grid every other day! Nevertheless, it seems a lot Read More

Google’s chief internet evangelist seems nervous about Trump’s tech policy

AUSTIN—South By Southwest’s most overdressed speaker, like many others, came to talk shop about the internet. The chief internet evangelist for Google (GOOG, GOOGL) made his first SXSW appearance as he does others: nattily attired in a three-piece suit. Cerf’s onstage interview by Susan Hassler, editor Source: www.yahoo.com/tech/googles-chief-internet-evangelist-seems-nervous-about-trumps-tech-policy-232602214.html  

Vint Cerf: An Internet For And By The People

SXSW 2017 Schedule | One of the Internet’s fathers, Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist at Google and Founder of the People-Centered Internet (PCI) makes his first-ever SXSW appearance to provide a future Internet forecast. Find out about the unprecedented partnership opportunities between the technology community and international/private finance that will help connect the three billion Read More

An Inclusive Internet as Global Asset

Balancing Leadership & Control So All May Connect to Thrive By Carrie Ford Hilliker September 9, 2016 In a series of recent statements, the Obama Administration argues against “a fragmented Internet that divides us rather than unites us, that minimizes the voice of people and maximizes their ability to cloud the truth.” The United States recognizes Read More

Systems Thinking, Asymmetric Information, and the People Centered Internet

By Peter Whitehead August 10, 2016 In 2001, the Royal Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences to Joseph Stiglitz, George Akerlof and Michael Spence for their seminal contribution to the economics of information [1].  Their concept shows how informational asymmetries can give rise to adverse selection in markets.  George Akerlof called this Read More