Platform & dysfunction
▻https://restofworld.org/2020/brazil-favela-chat-groups
Finding that elusive bus to work, reporting on a blocked sewer, or dodging gang activity : Brazil’s poorest find novel uses for familiar tech platforms. With a smartphone in hand, Felipe Fagundes darted down a narrow graffiti-splattered pathway to a bus stop in a run-down suburb of Rio de Janeiro. The 28-year-old writer had checked the bus timetable on Google Maps and left plenty of time, a habit forged by experience in a metropolis where millions of citizens spend several hours every (...)
