Sci&Tech History

Several months ago, I was involved in a project to observe relation between energy access and poverty. In my presentation, my closing question is should we reduce energy price so poor families can buy energy or we choose to use other programs to increase their welfare and as the consequence increase their ability to buy [...]

One day me and my friends was talking about bio energy. I said it is very easy to use bio energy, all you have to do is eating rice and then you can use ‘becak’ as your transportation vehicle. Human body can transform the food you eat into energy. As simple as that. So what [...]

How do we prevent our nature from destruction? Who own the nature? According to Gooetz and Jenkins (2004) whenever power is delegated by the many to the few in the interest of governability, a perpetual struggle emerge. To these perennial problems, globalization and political liberalization have added new ones. Powerful non-state actors capable of influencing [...]

What do I actually hope from ICT? The question suddenly shocked me, I lost my orientation on ICT and development. I can show calculation on how open source software development can reduce national cost on ICT spending, but further, how can this development make change as stated over and over in ICT policy documents: to [...]

What is Information and Communication Technology (ICT), really? The Millennium Declaration of the United Nations (UN) sees ICT as a tool having the potential to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set by the historic UN 2000 Summit (Zhao, 2008). Further, UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) stated that unlike most other technologies, ICT [...]

If you facing a lot of job, what would you prefer: going online or offline? In one hand, going online help you gain a lot idea through chaotic idea that cross over your eye, but on the same time, a lot of distraction made you unproductive, especially when you open social networks websites and chatting [...]

Currently, I’m working a paper on ICT for development. The study delivers me to ask about ICT and development relation: are we improving ICT for development or are we developing for ICT? Looking The Digital Divide Report launched by UNCTAD, ICT development tends to answer the second possibilities. Our success is represented by number of [...]

Yesterday afternoon, my colleague asking my facebook activity. He said based on a research, facebook (and maybe some other social network activities) is time-consuming and caused someone to be unproductive. Commenting on people status, change their profile, make some notes, request someone to join an online game are several out of many facilities offered on [...]

By the end of 2003, John Kelly, who was executive for IBM’s Technology Group, gathered 10 executives to IBM’s chip factory in East FishKill, New York. His intention was made clear: IBM need to share its most advanced semiconductor research with allies. After a long heated debate, Kelly prevailed. Soon thereafter, IBM’s built what it [...]

This morning I watched Doel Anak Sekolahan, an Indonesian soap opera about Betawi culture. Main character of the soap opera, Doel, was depressed since his coming to operate new machine cause several workers lost their job. The new machine bought by the factory owner make the workers selection are based on their capability to operate [...]