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iLabs: Community, Connection and a Culture of Innovation: a conversation with InSTEDD’s CTO Eduardo Jezierski

Posted on June 14, 2011 by J.A. Ginsburg

For the last few years, CTO Eduardo Jezerski and his colleagues at InSTEDD have been working on a model for an innovation lab—an “iLab”—to build local tech capacity in developing countries to support projects with social impact. The first, in Phnom Penh, is now 100% Cambodian-run, producing tech solutions that not only address local needs—primarily [...]

Filed under: disease surveillance, m-health, mobile devices, technology | Tagged: Cambodia, capacity building, disease surveillance, Eduardo Jezierski, Geochat, hackerspaces, iLab, iLab Latin America, InSTEDD, Phnom Penh, Reporting Wheel, technology | 2 Comments »

Good, Evil, Digital: The Promise and Peril of Life in the Cyber Lane (link suite overview)

Posted on February 22, 2011 by J.A. Ginsburg

“Good, Evil, Digital” is one of the largest link-suite “stories” we have ever featured on the aggregator, with more than four dozen links to articles, books, videos, websites and software tools. It has also been one of the most fascinating to research and challenging to assemble. Internet freedom and internet security are two sides to [...]

Filed under: free speech, maps, mobile devices, revolution, social networks | Tagged: Anonymous, Biz Stone, Chris Anderson, crisis mapping, cyberwar, Egypt, Evgeny Morozov, Facebook, hacktivists, Hillary Clinton, Hosni Mubarek, internet freedom, internet security, Julian Assange, Malcolm Gladwel, Maria Popova, Micah Sifry, social networks, stuxnet, tactical technology collective, TED, TOR, Twitter, Wael Ghonim, Wikileaks | Leave a Comment »

Need, Give, Good: On Philanthropy, Due Diligence, Trends & an Idea Whose Time as Come (link suite overview)

Posted on December 24, 2010 by J.A. Ginsburg

Giving has never been easier, nor need greater. Leveraging donations for impact, how more can be less and the promise of social enterprise “Need, Give, Good” – New suite of links on TrackerNews.net According to a new study by Network for Good and True Sense Marketing, 20% of all online giving takes place in the [...]

Filed under: Diaster relief, mobile devices, philanthropy | Tagged: Acumen Fund, Bill and Melinda Gates, Brain Pickings, cause marketing, charity navigator, Giving Pledge, global giving, groupon, Haiti, J.A.Ginsburg, Jacqueline Novogratz, kiva, living social, Maria Popova, Nicholas Kristof, Pakistan, philanthropy, philantopic, SOCAP, social enterprise, toy libraries, Warren Buffett | Leave a Comment »

PopTech: Day 1 – Reimagining and Beyond Imagining

Posted on October 23, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg

Blame it on the birds. And the elephants, lions, biochar, Indonesian agroforestry, dirt batteries, mechanical caterpillar waves, global maps, messenger bag-cum-lighting systems, a cyber-dance experience and one very lovely essay about migration. But not too far into the first day of PopTech, the conference’s “Reimagining America” theme disappeared. Which was fine. It seemed too limited [...]

Filed under: agriculture, charcoal, climate change, energy, eWaste, food, forests, innovation, lighting, mobile devices, rain forests, recycling, reforestation, solar, traffic, visualization, water | Tagged: Braddock, Chris Jordan, Eben Mayer, Emily Pilloton, Erik Hersman, FLAP, Flexible Light and Power, FrontlineSMS: Medic, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Hope Phones, Jason Araburu, John Fetterman, LEDs, One Laptop Per Child, Pennsylvania, plastic pollution, Project H Design, Sheila Kennedy, solar power | Leave a Comment »

Phone Riff: Hope Phones, Healthy Texting, Conflict Minerals, Ecological Intelligence, Blue Sweaters and Doing the Right Thing

Posted on May 26, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg

Hope Phones is one of those “Gosh, yes!” ideas: Get people to donate old cell phones to a recycling company Get recycling company to assign each phone a value Use value to trade for refurbished phones Donate refurbished phones to clinics in developing countries to use for sending health-related text messages Good begets good Stanford [...]

Filed under: conflict minerals, disease surveillance, energy, eWaste, innovation, mobile devices, recycling | Tagged: Acumen Fund, coltan, conflict minerals, cradle to cradle, cradle-to-grave, Daniel Goleman, e-waste, Ecological Intelligence, Frontline SMS, Hope Phones, Jacqueline Novogratz, Josh Nesbit, m-health, mobile health, recycling, reman, remanufacturing, The Blue Sweater, tungsten | 6 Comments »

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