Our American Neighbors

Reverse innovation from the least of our neighbors.

Understanding our Celestial Neighbors: An Indian Perspective in Planetary Sciences and Exploration

1826Jain N and Chauhan P (2015a) Study of phyllosilicates andcarbonates from the Capri Chasma region of VallesMarineris on Mars based on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter-Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars(MRO-CRISM) observations Icarus 7-17 Jain N and Chauhan P (2015b) Identification of deposits ofaqueous minerals in northern part of Hellas Planitia region<l...

Faith in Our Neighbors: Networks and Social Order in Three Brazilian Favelas

After nearly 20 years of democratization, residents of Rio’s favelas suffer high levels of civil and human rights abuse at the hands of both police and drug traffickers. The government is generally unable to guarantee the political order necessary to protect the rights of residents in these communities. Existing theories of democratization and advocacy networks offer little to explain how the t...

Helping Our Neighbors in China: An International Collaboration to Deploy Sahana in Chengdu, Sichuan

This paper provides an inside look at an international effort to deploy the free and open source (FOSS) Sahana disaster management system in China in the aftermath of the May 2008 earthquake. It describes how a diverse, multidisciplinary team—professional programmers, software engineers, executives from a large global enterprise, students, faculty, and humanitarian IT specialists from a global ...

The news is American but our memories are ... Chinese?

Are our memories of the world well described by the international news coverage in our country? If so, sources central to international news may also be central to international recall patterns; in particular, they may reflect an American-centric focus, given the previously proposed central U.S. position in the news marketplace. We asked people of four different nationalities (China, Israel, Sw...