Designing for Cuba: Necessary In(ter)vention

April 11, 2008 lecture by Gwendolyn Floyd and Joshua Kauffman for the Stanford University Human Computer Interaction Seminar (CS547).

This lecture shares REGIONAL's recent in-field Cuban research that spans the socio-technological, the political, and the top-secret. It reveals how their research led to the design of a simple and affordable digital device that would potentially accelerate Cuban social change. It also discusses how an understanding of Cuba's development in a technologically walled garden offers us the chance to consider this closed-system metaphor for how the world is increasingly accepting itself to be.

CS 547 | Human-Computer Interaction Seminar:
http://hci.stanford.edu/seminar/

Stanford University:
http://www.stanford.edu/

Stanford University Channel on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/stanford/

Category:

Education

Tags:

• science
• computer
• technology
• research
• political
• social
• design
• digital
• device
• government
• Sneakernet
• socialism
• security
• economy
• barter
• development
• entrepreneurship
• intranet
• green
• blog
• IT
• flash
• drive
• change
• internet
• web
• Fidel
• Castro

[poliklosio]

Incredible. There are so many good ideas and phenomenons in Cuban society and economy. I can easily imagine that the Cuban government can gradually retreat from intimidating practices and create a state which retains the non-democratic socialism but at the same improve the standard of living by hearing to people, e.g. monitoring the intranet.