• Hexayurt

    My Latest Piece: The Global Village Development Bank

    by  • March 12, 2009 • Hexayurt, The Global Picture • 0 Comments

    If the World Bank was being created at the dawn of the 21st century, how would its basic model and operations differ from the mid-20th century institution which supports projects worldwide today? Since the foundation of the World Bank, two significant development have affected infrastructure financing. The first is the development of distributed infrastructure (DI) [...]

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    Can we build a world with open source?

    by  • March 8, 2009 • Hexayurt • 0 Comments

    Vinay Gupta is a Scottish-Indian engineer who designs low-cost homes for poor parts of the world or disaster zones, and then makes them freely available on the internet so others can do the building. His flagship is the Hexayurt shelter system, which costs around $200* (£142). It uses common building materials, including insulation boards – [...]

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    More on the forensic camera concept

    by  • January 29, 2009 • Hexayurt • 0 Comments

    (via Woody) Bruce Sterling once said: “a G.I. Homeland-Security Cellphone could be a very capable and scary little object. If every American cellphone became a Black Box, a hardened recorder and camera, aimed, owned, and controlled by a citizen, that device would be the Minuteman rifle for modern netwar. They’re “wingless angels” already. With an [...]

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    Announcing GlueSniffers

    by  • January 22, 2009 • Hexayurt • 7 Comments

    GlueSniffers is today, February 9th 2009 in Bermondsey, London. A Tuttleish get-together for people interested in the intersection between ICT and appropriate technology, so named by the Mad Genius of Akvo – a hotly contested title – Mark Charmer being the current holder. Dougald Hine of the School of Everything – another mad genius, you [...]

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