Ethan Zuckerman Quotes

Ethan Zuckerman — American Activist

Ethan Zuckerman is an American media scholar, blogger, and Internet activist. He is the director of the MIT Center for Civic Media and the author most recently of Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection, which won the Zócalo Book Prize... (wikipedia)

The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we're blindly accepting... or blindly resistant.

It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.

Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.

For countries such as Kenya to emerge as economic powerhouses, they need better infrastructure: roads, ports, smart grids and power plants. Infrastructure is expensive, and takes a long time to build. In the meantime, hackers are building 'grassroots infrastructure,' using the mobile-phone system to build solutions that are ready for market.

A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.

Ethan Zuckerman Quotes

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