Steve Daniels writing in Medium:
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At Makeshift, we have reported on countless cases of jugaad, gambiarra, bricolage, and jua kali. These are the names various cultures have given to an informal kind of making--the duct-tape economy. SIM card hackers in Accra fused SIM cards together well before phone manufacturers designed multi-SIM devices. And following the tropical storm Nock-ten, Bangkok's citizens hacked their way across floods before official disaster relief could come to their aid.
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