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Monthly Archives: March 2009

Can we build a world with open source?

Sunday, March 8, 2009

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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On the nature of authority and how it is changing

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

(from this blog post on Museum 2.0) Really, really significant implications to this model. I’ve been meaning to blog this for maybe a month and I only just got around to it, and I still haven’t crunched through all the implications.

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Hope for the World – my talk from the Emergency Housing workshop in Sweden

Monday, March 2, 2009

Uncompressed video and audio, plus the presentaiton slides. It’s too big for Blip (one file is over a gig) so I’ll need to edit / sort it out later, but I wanted to make it available to interested parties now. See the presentation slides (the PDF file) for the fastest summary of what it’s all [...]

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Big Hexayurt Footage from Temporary Living workshop at Emergency Housing Sweden

Monday, March 2, 2009

Click to Play http://www.emergencyhousing.se/news/transitional-living-workshop-programme/

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Hexayurt pix from Sweden

Monday, March 2, 2009
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Military leader in Africa slates IDP camps as criminal health hazards

Monday, March 2, 2009

One day I told the person responsible for OCHA; the one in charge of humanitarian affairs, if we do a study in the camps around Goma, in each week there are about a hundred people dying from different diseases. In four years, CNDP has been accused of killing 100 people. But you are killing one [...]

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Bruces on Web2.0

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Actually, you don’t simply kill those earlier paradigms. What you do is turn them into components, then make the components into platforms, then place more fresh components on top. That is native web logic. (source)

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GlueSniffers on Monday at the School of Everything offices

Sunday, March 1, 2009

At the last meetup, I found myself in conversations about the spread of wifi in Peru, online tools for mapping infectious diseases, and how School of Everything could provide face-to-face back up for services like Appropedia and Akvopedia. It looks like other people had an interesting evening, too – judging by Pamela McLean’s blog post [...]

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