Healthcare initiatives using mobile phones in innovative ways are increasing across sub Saharan Africa. First, there’s news of a toll free service where people without immediate access to medical advice can call and speak to a doctor in selected remote areas. Supporting this initiative in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda is Zain subsidiary Celtel in partnership [...]

Nokia has over 300 designers worldwide, and ships over 1.2 million products everyday. So Allan Chochinov of Core77 was anxious to attend Nokia’s recent London design event, offering a curtainpeek at their design process, ethnographic wanderings, sustainability initiatives, and plans for the future.Listen in as he chats with Younghee Jung from the services and UI [...]

The three-day Changing the Change conference, which is about the role of design research in sustainable change and scheduled for 10-12 July in Turin, Italy, looks to become very interesting indeed.The list of invited speakers and discussants features Bill Moggridge (IDEO); Geetha Narayanan (Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, India); Lou Yongqi (Tongji University, [...]

The UK think tank Demos has launched a new publication, The Politics of Public Behaviour, which explores the role of government in influencing people’s lifestyles and everyday decision-making.Abstract:The personal has become political. Increasingly, governments find themselves drawn into questions about how children are parented, how household waste is disposed of, how people travel, how much [...]

The May/June issue of Interactions Magazine just came out and some of the content is available online (and more will follow soon).The issue is all about “colliding worlds” with “interactions disciplines” becoming “more appropriately integrated into other creative disciplines (e.g. architecture and music), into business, and into the new business models that will shape the [...]