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 – [...]
Read more →(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.
Read more →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 [...]
Read more →Click to Play http://www.emergencyhousing.se/news/transitional-living-workshop-programme/
Read more →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 [...]
Read more →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)
Read more →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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