by John Freund, CM | Jun 19, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Feature phones are not the future. Of course that verges on tautology; of course everyone will have a smartphone, until everyone has something smaller and better and even more integrated into the fabric of our lives, like Google Glasses or cybernetic jawbone/retinal...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 18, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Uncategorized
It’s only a game! Or is it? Spent (http://playspent.org/ ) – PlaySpent is an online game that involves the player taking on the role of an unemployed, single parent who has to make it through the month on their last $1,000. The player does this by solving...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 17, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Philadelphia; Denver; Ashland, OR. What do these cities have in common? They are all addressing homelessness and poverty by making it a crime. A Painful Truth And in Sunday’s edition of the USA Today, we shared a painful truth: they’re not alone. Across the country,...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 14, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Do you know what it’s like to live on $1.25 a day? One non-profit, Live58, wants to bring the experience to life for Internet users around the world. It launched Survive125, a choose-your-own-adventure style simulation of life in extreme poverty. You may not actually...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 6, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
A Huffington Post article Smartphones Bring Hope, Frustration As Substitute For Computers states, “When Erick Huerta was growing up in Los Angeles, his family could not afford a computer. His mother sold tamales from a street-side stall, and his father drove a...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 1, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The website ThinkProgress writes that according to a new report from the Office of Research at the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the U.S. has one of the highest rates of child poverty in the developed world. Of the 35 wealthy countries studied by UNICEF,...