Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Africa’s Gift to Silicon Valley: How to Track a Crisis
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/weekinreview/14giridharadas.html?sudsredirect=true
Ushahidi also represents a new frontier of innovation. Silicon Valley has been the reigning paradigm of innovation, with its universities, financiers, mentors, immigrants and robust patents. Ushahidi comes from another world, in which entrepreneurship is born of hardship and innovators focus on doing more with less, rather than on selling you new and improved stuff.
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Posted by Kevin Walker at 3/17/2010 10:08:00 PM 1 comments
Saturday, February 27, 2010
GRND Lab
http://www.grndlab.com/
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Posted by Kevin Walker at 2/27/2010 09:09:00 PM 2 comments
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
DIY Solar video kit
http://solarvideokit.wordpress.com/
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Posted by Kevin Walker at 2/23/2010 09:47:00 PM 0 comments
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Tilting at windmills: the boy who harnessed the wind
Malawian teenager William Kamkwamba built a generator out of a bicycle and tractor fan. Now he's lauded by environmentalists. more
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Posted by Kevin Walker at 11/26/2009 08:02:00 PM 2 comments
Friday, November 20, 2009
Google takes internet to remote Kenyan villages
In recent years the mobile phone has emerged as the main modern communications link for rural areas of Africa. From 2002 to 2007, the number of Kenyans using cellphones grew almost tenfold to reach about a third of the population, many of whom did not have land lines, according to the International Telecommunication Union. more
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Posted by Kevin Walker at 11/20/2009 08:31:00 AM 0 comments
Sunday, September 20, 2009
So Much Food. So Much Hunger.
How can so many people be hungry when farmers produce enough food, at least in theory, to feed every person on the planet?
The answers are complex and involve everything from American farm politics and African corruption to war, poverty, climate change and drought, which is now the single most common cause of food shortages on the planet. more
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Posted by Kevin Walker at 9/20/2009 12:05:00 PM 0 comments