Current Affairs
4 articles on current affairs, written by the team at SiteCraft Innovation.
Analysis of events where the technology is the story, written for readers who want the mechanism rather than the headline.
Much of it concerns climate, water and the infrastructure that warns people about both, which is where South Asian engineering questions get genuinely difficult. See flood early warning systems explained and mapping flood risk with open data.
How Flood Early-Warning Systems Work, and Why Minutes Matter
A plain explanation of the sensing, interpretation, dissemination and response chain behind a flood warning, what each link costs, and where the chain usually breaks in practice.
Mapping Flood Risk With Open Data: What You Can Build in a Week
Open elevation, rainfall and settlement datasets are now good enough to produce genuinely useful local exposure maps without a research budget. Here is the honest scope of what they can tell you, and the point at which they stop being trustworthy.
How to Read Tech News Without Getting Played
Most technology coverage is downstream of somebody's launch calendar. A field guide to telling announcements from shipments, reading vendor benchmarks, and keeping a roadmap out of the news cycle.
Climate Tech in South Asia: Where Software Genuinely Helps
Separating the parts of the climate problem that are information problems, and therefore addressable with software, from the much larger parts that are physical and political. Written from Nepal, where the difference is not academic.