MP3 of an hour-long braindump on how the internet will affect global politics. There’s a lot of background noise on the recording unfortunately – the room had a lot more echo than it sounded like to me at the time. You’ll need headphones to get through this. A shame, really, it’s a good summary of [...]
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The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution
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The internet and politics – braindump for Eva Appelbaum (formerly of Amnesty International)
by Vinay Gupta • January 24, 2009 • 0 Comments
Eelko Brouwer of Netherlands Red Cross on Humanitarian Innovation
by Vinay Gupta • January 24, 2009 • 0 Comments
Click to Play http://www.innovativeshelter.tue.nl/
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by Vinay Gupta • January 23, 2009 • 0 Comments
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Read more →Announcing GlueSniffers
by Vinay Gupta • January 22, 2009 • 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 [...]
Read more →Visiting WaterAid with Akvo
by Vinay Gupta • January 20, 2009 • 0 Comments
World Help Training Center on TV
by Vinay Gupta • January 20, 2009 • 0 Comments
Attachab – an ecovillage project in Nigeria
by Vinay Gupta • January 19, 2009 • 0 Comments
Featuring Pam of Dadamac and Marcus of Ecoshelter.
Read more →The new video age is going to require radical attention conservation tools to manage
by Vinay Gupta • January 18, 2009 • 0 Comments
Twitter and video blogging represent opposite ends of a spectrum. I follow something like 100 people on twitter. It takes about ten minutes a day, maybe a little more if I’m using the web interface. Already several very interesting things have come out of that investment of attention – a larger sense of a social [...]
Read more →Data protection: firesafe that lets you use bus-powered drives without opening it
by Vinay Gupta • January 18, 2009 • 0 Comments
Sheer brilliance – a bus powered drive goes inside, and you plug it into a computer on the outside and use it. In the event of a fire, your computer melts, but not the drive. Would be a ton more useful with half a dozen USB connectors or some facility for moving power inside too, [...]
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