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06 Dec 2008 02:32 pm
Web 2.0 & Slum 1.0
By Patrick Appel
Photographer Filippo Minelli describes his work:
What I want to do by writing the names of anything connected with the 2.0 life... [on] the slums of the third world is to point out the gap between the reality we still live in and the ephemeral world of technologies. It's a kind of reminder, for people like me..., I'm an Apple user and also have social-network accounts, that the real world is deeply far from the idealization we have of it...
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The limits of Dev 2.0
Excerpt: While new Web 2.0 technologies carry some promise in furthering the development agenda, photographer Filippo Minelli graphically reminds us of the limits of what these things can achieve. From Minelli's ongoing Contradictions series:
Weblog: PSD Blog - The World Bank Group
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