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Matt Haughey: Startup Lessons from a 40 year old
Metafilter's Matt Haughey gives his take on running a business for the long haul.
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March 30, 2012, 01:33PM
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Stories of Support
Adeo Ressi: The Founder Institute
Adeo Ressi is the creator of The Founder Institute, the world’s largest idea-stage incubator.
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March 26, 2012, 01:39PM
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2 comments
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Stories of Support
CouchSurfing.org
Imagine having an interesting friend wherever you go. CouchSurfing is blazing the trail towards a better, friendlier world where people who are different from one another can find their similarities.
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March 18, 2012, 10:29AM
190 views
10 comments
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Stories of Support
TheHive by Gvahim: Helping Immigrants Startup
TheHive by Gvahim is a start-up incubator for new immigrant high-tech ventures.
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March 14, 2012, 10:40PM
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2 comments
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Stories of Support
Eric Ries: The Lean Startup
Eric Ries provides a roadmap for startup entrepreneurial success.
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March 13, 2012, 08:25PM
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3 comments
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Stories of Support
Startup Meetups
Startup Meetups are an essential ingredient for inspiration, pivots, support and success.
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March 13, 2012, 08:07PM
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5 comments
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Online Voting with Video-clip Authentication
Vote online by logging into a secure government voting website. Authenticate your vote by recording and uploading a video clip confirming that you have voted.
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February 25, 2012, 10:01PM
250 views
4 comments
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Learn from Analogies
Credit Card Voting using Mobile Phones
Use Credit Cards to Vote Securely using any Mobile Phone.
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January 27, 2012, 05:33PM
307 views
8 comments
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Explore through Empathy
Indrani Medhi: Text-Free User Interfaces
Indrani Medhi has conducted some great ethnographic research on Text-Free User Interfaces
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January 25, 2012, 04:05AM
296 views
4 comments
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Remote Secure Fingerprint Voting
Vote securely from remote locations using your fingerprint
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January 25, 2012, 03:06AM
363 views
1 comment
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Donors Choose Detroit
Deploy Donors Choose Detroit to achieve effective interventions in the lives of schoolchildren living in Detroit
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December 31, 2011, 04:33PM
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Natural Building Community
Cob, a mixture of sand, clay, and straw is a natural building material that can be hand-sculpted and is ideal for natural building community projects like benches, ovens, bus-stops and playgrounds.
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December 15, 2011, 07:01PM
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Busycle: Human Powered Urban Transport
The Busycle is a 15-person pedal-powered bicycle-bus. It can be used to move around town on dedicated routes while helping residents get in shape and engage with each other.
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December 13, 2011, 06:57PM
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My Ikiru Project
Akira Kurosawa's 1952 film "Ikiru" ("To Live") is about a lowly bureaucrat who is diagnosed with terminal cancer and dedicates his remaining time to accomplishing one worthwhile achievement before his life ends. What is my Ikiru project?
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December 12, 2011, 08:10PM
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7 comments
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Lego Rapid Prototyping Tool for Participatory Urban Neighborhood Design
Lego Rapid Prototyping Tool for Participatory Urban Neighborhood Design (#LRPTPUND) allows any community to quickly visualize the existing situation and mockup future ideal solutions.
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December 06, 2011, 10:24PM
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7 comments
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Bootstrapped Urban Neighborhood SIP Veggie Farm
Create an instant neighborhood farm on a vacant lot with DIY Sub-Irrigated Planters (SIPs) to enable sustainable, highly productive organic gardening.
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December 06, 2011, 06:27PM
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39 comments
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Lego Serious Play for Participatory Neighborhood Design
Lego Serious Play Kits are customized for building metaphors, creative story making and applying imagination. The kits can be easily adapted for participatory neighborhood design.
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December 05, 2011, 04:01AM
403 views
2 comments
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John Todd: Healing Waters
John Todd has pioneered techniques for treating waste water through the use of contained ecosystems called Eco-Machines.
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December 03, 2011, 04:57AM
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Karen MacKay: Vertical Theory
Karen MacKay's Vertical Farms envision a sustainable approach to Urban Agriculture.
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December 01, 2011, 05:51AM
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Urbanism Manual for Precarious Settlements
Urbanism Manual for Precarious Settlements / Manual de Urbanismo para Asentamientos Precarios
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November 28, 2011, 06:54PM
358 views
1 comment
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Design with the Other 90%: CITIES
The Design with the Other 90%: CITIES exhibition features sixty projects, proposals, and solutions that address the complex issues arising from the unprecedented rise of informal settlements in emerging and developing economies.
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November 26, 2011, 01:10AM
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5 comments
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World of Citycraft: Games for City Design
World of Citycraft demonstrates how simulation games can be introduced and played in the planning and transformation of cities.
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November 25, 2011, 09:32PM
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Mark Lakeman of City Repair: Placemaking in Portland, Oregon
Placemaking is the creative reclamation of public space. Mark Lakeman of City Repair explains how Placemaking is being adopted by local communities in Portland, Oregon
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November 25, 2011, 09:02PM
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Mark Covington, Georgia Street Community Garden, Detroit
Mark Covington, Georgia Street Community Garden, Detroit
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November 22, 2011, 04:39PM
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2 comments
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Chennai Women Auto-rickshaw Drivers as Engines of Social Development
Chennai's Women Auto-rickshaw Drivers are Engines of Social Development
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November 21, 2011, 05:52PM
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7 comments
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Earthworks Urban Farm, Detroit
Detroit's Earthworks Urban Farm seeks to build a just, beautiful food system through education, inspiration, and community development.
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November 21, 2011, 02:46PM
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1 comment
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John Gallagher: Reimagining Detroit
John Gallagher's book "Reimagining Detroit" synthesizes several ideas for urban revitalization in shrinking post-industrial cities.
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November 19, 2011, 12:44AM
803 views
5 comments
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S.I.M. City Baltimore
S.I.M. City Baltimore - Urban Design Studio
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November 17, 2011, 05:37PM
332 views
5 comments
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Betaville: Participatory Urban Design
Betaville is a collaborative online platform for proposals on urban design.
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November 17, 2011, 05:26PM
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Grassroots Detroit Gardeners
Grassroots Detroit gardeners are already the solution - let's support them in revitalizing the city!
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November 16, 2011, 03:48PM
327 views
6 comments
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Martha Stewart: Simplified Hydroponics for Urban Farming
Martha Stewart presents Simplified Hydroponics for Urban Farming
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November 15, 2011, 02:56PM
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Naomi Davis: Blacks in Green
Naomi Davis rejuvenates decimated neighborhoods in Chicago
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November 15, 2011, 04:23AM
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1 comment
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Christopher Alexander: Building Living Neighborhoods
Christopher Alexander has remarkable insights for building living neighborhoods.
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November 14, 2011, 05:00PM
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Mumbai Train Station Bazaars
Mumbai has an intricate network of bazaars outside every local train station.
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November 14, 2011, 03:13AM
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Urbanized
Urbanized is a documentary about what makes cities work.
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November 12, 2011, 05:49AM
369 views
6 comments
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Learning from Burning Man
Burning Man is a city that appears out of nowhere for a week every year and then melts back into the desert.
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November 12, 2011, 05:42AM
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Marathon Grill restaurant builds neighborhood farm in Philadelphia
Marathon Grill restaurant built a farm in the Brewerytown section of Philadelphia to locally source food for its restaurants and reconnect the local community to nutritious food.
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November 10, 2011, 05:10PM
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Maker Faire Detroit
Maker Faire Detroit is an annual DIY science fair on steroids held at the Ford Museum
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November 10, 2011, 03:02PM
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1 comment
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Making a Living in Mumbai
The spirited people of Mumbai can provide inspiration for staying resilient under trying conditions.
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November 09, 2011, 04:46AM
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4 comments
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Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab: Visions for the future City
The Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab (VEIL) seeks to identify and promote emerging technical, social and organizational innovations that could form part of future sustainable urban systems.
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November 09, 2011, 03:53AM
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1 comment
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Garden State Urban Farms
500 Earthboxes + Vacant Urban Lot = Instant Community Farm
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November 09, 2011, 03:13AM
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1 comment
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Amnesty Global Shortwave Radio Channel for Detainee Families
Amnesty can transit messages from families of detainees globally on a shortwave frequency.
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November 04, 2011, 01:41PM
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Photo Telepathy Experiment
Can humans communicate with telepathy? Try the Photo Telepathy Experiment and find out.
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November 02, 2011, 04:35PM
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Webcam Hat
Webcam Hat to transmit circumstances of capture
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October 31, 2011, 02:03AM
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Prison Philosophy
"Wherever a man is against his will, that to him is a prison" - Epictetus
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October 28, 2011, 04:11AM
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Inspire Us
Matrix Interrogation
Classic interrogation scene from The Matrix
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October 12, 2011, 10:34PM
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Tools of Support
Global Rescue
Global Rescue provides worldwide emergency evacuation and field rescue services
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October 06, 2011, 12:56PM
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Tools of Support
Flarecaster
A Flare is a short distress message that is sent via SMS text messaging system.
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October 05, 2011, 10:33PM
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3 comments
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Inspire Us
Improvised Radio Transmitter
Prisoners can make an improvised radio transmitter to signal their situation.
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October 05, 2011, 03:38AM
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Tools of Support
Frank Warren: PostSecret
People mail Frank Warren postcards with their secrets. How can postcards convey more than what they say?
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September 29, 2011, 06:10PM
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Exploring Powerlessness
Resistance Starts With Saying "No"
Resistance starts with saying "No". This is true regardless of the power dynamics you're trapped in.
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September 29, 2011, 05:01PM
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2 comments
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Tools of Support
Signal your Distress to Space
Imagine that you're a political prisoner condemned to hard labor in a concentration camp. What can you do to signal your distress to the free world?
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September 29, 2011, 04:38PM
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1 comment
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Inspire Us
James Stockdale: Leadership Lessons from a Vietnam POW
James Stockdale was the highest-ranking naval officer held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. He talks about preserving self-respect even under the direst of conditions.
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September 29, 2011, 02:48PM
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Tools of Support
Edible RFID for Covert Location Signalling
An Edible RFID "pill" could be ingested prior to detention to covertly signal one's location.
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September 29, 2011, 03:20AM
634 views
3 comments
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Tools of Support
Observations of a Jailed Journalist
Journalist John Farley was arrested at the Occupy Wall Street protests. He provides an insightful first-hand account of the power and potential of citizen journalism.
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September 28, 2011, 11:31PM
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Spread the Word
Public Campaign to Free Gilad Shalit
Gilad Shalit has been held captive for the last 5 years. A public campaign for his release has been mounted throughout the world.
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September 28, 2011, 11:10PM
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2 comments
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OpenIDEO Design Challenge Card
An accordion-format laminated card for instant participation in a OpenIDEO Design Challenge
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August 24, 2011, 03:40PM
1586 views
41 comments
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OpenIDEO Design Challenge Board Game
How about an OpenIDEO Design Challenge Board Game that can let children and offline communities participate in challenges?
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August 21, 2011, 07:49PM
580 views
6 comments
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OpenIDEO Open Source Platform
OpenIDEO Open Source Platform for deployment by schools, universities, municipalities and governments.
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August 12, 2011, 06:19PM
865 views
9 comments
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OpenIDEO Merit Patches
How about an OpenIDEO merit patch? It will bond the OpenIDEO community and start conversations.
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August 10, 2011, 11:40PM
550 views
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Ethnography is Central
Ethnography or deep empathy earned by participant observation is central to design.
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August 09, 2011, 10:26PM
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Lego Cuusoo Crowdsources Design
“Cuusoo” is japanese for “wish”. Lego Cuusoo crowdsources design concepts from fans all over the world
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August 08, 2011, 04:39PM
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IDEO Design Thinking Simulation
ExperiencePoint developed Design Thinker in collaboration with IDEO. During the half-day workshop, competing teams use the terms, techniques and thought patterns of design thinking to solve a realistic and complex challenge.
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August 02, 2011, 01:56PM
876 views
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Lego Serious Play Kit
Lego Serious Play Kits are customized for building metaphors, creative story making and applying imagination.
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August 02, 2011, 01:31PM
674 views
8 comments
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Gamestorming for Social Good
Gamestorming is a set of best practices compiled from the world's most innovative people and companies, condensed into a lightweight, low-tech toolkit that applies tools and rules to the problems of collaboration and teamwork.
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August 01, 2011, 07:39PM
851 views
14 comments
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Stanford D.School K12 Lab
Stanford D.School K12 Lab is focused on making Design Thinking accesible to schoolkids
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August 01, 2011, 07:16PM
773 views
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Open Source OpenIDEO Platform
Scalability is the key to maximal impact. OpenIDEO can licence it's software platform to schools and municipalities across the globe to foster innovation from the ground up.
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July 31, 2011, 03:56AM
866 views
6 comments
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Connections for Impact
Maker Faire Changes Lives
The Maker Faire connects people of all ages with a passion for making cool stuff.
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July 28, 2011, 05:19PM
356 views
19 comments
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UAV to Deliver Medical Supplies
A low-cost UAV to deliver medical supplies to remote areas in Caldas
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July 12, 2011, 03:47PM
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Help Children Grow Tomatoes using EarthBoxes
EarthBoxes are a highly efficient, foolproof method of growing tomatoes suitable for crowded urban areas. Children can easily set up EarthBoxes and grow some of their own food, organically promoting better nutrition for themselves and their families.
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July 01, 2011, 03:34AM
871 views
12 comments
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Instructional Videos and Games for Caldas Coffee Farmers
Instructional videos and games could be distributed to educate, entertain and connect Caldas coffee farmers
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June 30, 2011, 01:32PM
777 views
8 comments
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Caldas Village Construction Set
Implement a Caldas Build of the Global Village Construction Set, a set of Open Source tools for 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small civilization with modern comforts.
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June 29, 2011, 04:01AM
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Grow Edible Snails to supplement Caldas Nutrition
Protein deficiency due to poverty is a root cause of malnutrition in Caldas. Edible snails can be grown locally as a cheap protein source.
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June 28, 2011, 08:01PM
862 views
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Caldas Coffee Direct Exchange
A coffee exchange website to buy Caldas coffee directly from Caldas farmers
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June 28, 2011, 04:31PM
706 views
12 comments
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Grow your own Coffee Tree
Bob Hyland uses sub-irrigated planters made from recycled materials to grow Coffee in his Brooklyn apartment:)
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June 27, 2011, 10:14PM
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1 comment
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Exploring Social Business
Natural Building with Cob
Cob building uses hands and feet to form lumps of earth mixed with sand and straw. Ianto Evans, master cob builder and architect at Cob Cottage in Southern Oregon provides an introduction.
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June 21, 2011, 09:34PM
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Exploring Social Business
Coffee Cupping
Coffee cupping is the practice of observing the tastes and aromas of brewed coffee.
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June 21, 2011, 02:48AM
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1 comment
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Life in South America
Johan van Lengen: Organic Brazil
Johan van Lengen founded TIBÁ (Bio-Architecture and Intuitive Technology), an institute in Brazil’s Mata Atlantica jungle that offers workshops on ecological building techniques.
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June 20, 2011, 12:40PM
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Health Landscape
Hesperian Foundation Health Library
Hesperian is a non-profit publisher of books and newsletters for community-based health care.
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June 19, 2011, 03:49PM
226 views
1 comment
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Exploring Social Business
Etsy: Eliminating the Middlemen
Etsy enables people to make a living making things, and to reconnect makers with buyers.
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June 19, 2011, 01:01AM
344 views
5 comments
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Health Landscape
Yogurt Mamas
Probiotic Yogurt production by the people, for the people's health
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June 19, 2011, 12:26AM
630 views
1 comment
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Exploring Social Business
WWOOF: World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms
WWOOF links volunteers with organic farmers, and help people share more sustainable ways of living.
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June 19, 2011, 12:07AM
291 views
3 comments
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Exploring Social Business
Square: Direct Billing for the Masses
Square is a revolutionary service that enables anyone to accept credit cards anywhere. Square offers an easy to use, free credit card reader that plugs into a phone or iPad.
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June 18, 2011, 10:24PM
293 views
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Exploring Social Business
Napa Valley Wine Tours
Napa Valley wine tours reconnect people to their wines
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June 18, 2011, 10:18PM
238 views
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Exploring Social Business
Yves Behar: Sustainable Cacao
Yves Behar came up with a sustainable hot cacao system to return authenticity to the product and connect the consumer as directly as possible to the original Cacao farmer.
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June 18, 2011, 03:02AM
455 views
3 comments
6 applause |
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Nintendo DS for Social Change
The Nintendo DS is a rugged device that can be adapted to deliver health and nutrition programming.
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June 16, 2011, 12:39PM
340 views
0 comments
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Health Landscape
EarthTainer Instant Veggie Farm
The EarthTainer DIY container sub-irrigated planter enables sustainable, highly productive organic gardening.
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June 14, 2011, 11:44PM
929 views
1 comment
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Global Village Construction Set
Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing a set of blueprints for 50 farming tools that can be built cheaply from scratch. Call it a "civilization starter kit."
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June 14, 2011, 11:23PM
660 views
13 comments
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Exploring Social Business
Quilting With a Mission
Quilting opens possibilities for rural women
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June 14, 2011, 02:03PM
271 views
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Heliciculture: Out of Poverty with Snails
Farm edible snails for nutrition and profit
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June 14, 2011, 01:04PM
511 views
4 comments
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The Telenovela as a Motor for Social Change
Even the poorest of the poor have some form of access to cable TV. Dr. Miguel Sabido provides a methodology to deploy soap operas for social change.
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June 14, 2011, 02:59AM
472 views
4 comments
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Exploring Social Business
Easy Hydroponics for Healthy Food
The FAO has already developed simplified hydroponics to grow nutritious food under tough conditions
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June 13, 2011, 09:29PM
415 views
4 comments
3 applause |
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Dharavi: Mumbai Slum as Entrepreneurial Powerhouse
The spirited people and businesses of Dharavi, the world's biggest slum, can provide inspiration for staying resilient under trying conditions.
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June 13, 2011, 05:41PM
707 views
5 comments
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Fruit Trees instead of Fences
What if we pulled fences down and planted fruit trees instead?
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April 22, 2011, 08:46PM
597 views
14 comments
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Hack Cooking to Make it Appealing
Nathan Myhrvold hacks the art of cooking!
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April 20, 2011, 11:20PM
372 views
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Use Plantcams to connect Farmer with Eaters
Plantcams can be deployed to connect farmer with eaters. A DIY version can be rigged up easily.
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April 18, 2011, 02:30AM
427 views
1 comment
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Create Instant Farms on Vacant Lots
500 Earthboxes + Vacant Urban Lot = Instant Farm
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April 17, 2011, 03:58AM
401 views
4 comments
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Install Greenhouses at Train Stations
Train stations are hubs of communal attention. Installing greenhouses at platform exits will calm frayed nerves and bring home awareness of the plant-based roots of modern food.
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April 15, 2011, 04:54AM
438 views
4 comments
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Have Farmers Take and Share a Photo of Every Meal they Eat
Have farmers take a photo of every meal they eat and share it to influence the food habits of the rest of us.
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April 14, 2011, 04:20AM
286 views
4 comments
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Make Veggie Topiaries
Make veggie topiaries based on your favorite characters
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April 13, 2011, 03:21AM
605 views
1 comment
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Share, Cook and Eat your best Recipe together with your Neighbors
Share your best recipe and cook it together with local community members who like eating well
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April 08, 2011, 04:09PM
873 views
1 comment
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Tweeting Plants
Plants tweet their status to you: "I'm thirsty!", "Tomatoes are ripe for picking!"
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April 07, 2011, 11:32PM
631 views
2 comments
3 applause |
Make a veggie SIP from two 5-gallon buckets
Grow you own veggie this year using a highly efficient, productive and portable Sub-Irrigated Planter (SIP) you can make from two 5-gallon food-grade buckets
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April 05, 2011, 01:34PM
1349 views
6 comments
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Growing your own
Simplified Hydroponics for the City
The FAO has already developed simplified hydroponics for urban areas, let's put the knowledge to work!
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April 01, 2011, 07:02PM
497 views
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Innovations in food
Thiru Kumar: NYC Dosa Guy
NY Dosas is a food cart near Washington Square Park manned by Thiru Kumar
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March 30, 2011, 06:51PM
740 views
2 comments
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Growing your own
Alan Titchmarsh's 'How to be a Gardener'
Alan Titchmarsh makes gardening dirt simple in his popular BBC series 'How to be a Gardener'
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March 29, 2011, 02:48PM
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Growing your own
Erik Knutzen shares his Urban Homesteading Experience
Erik Knutzen shares his Urban Homesteading Experience
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March 29, 2011, 02:27AM
535 views
0 comments
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Innovations in food
Maker Faire Secret Food Truck
You could only get to the Maker Faire Secret Food Truck by word of mouth.
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March 25, 2011, 05:14PM
574 views
2 comments
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Innovations in food
Mumbai Train Station Bazaars
Mumbai has an intricate network of bazaars outside every local train station.
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March 24, 2011, 03:30AM
1505 views
2 comments
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Innovations in food
Rick Bayless: Master Chef who grows food on restaurant rooftop
Master Chef Rick Bayless grows some of his own food using EarthBoxes on the roof of his restaurant.
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March 23, 2011, 04:10PM
539 views
1 comment
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Growing your own
Grow your own veggie this year
Grow you own veggie this year using a highly efficient, productive and portable Sub-Irrigated Planter (SIP) you can make from two 5-gallon food-grade buckets
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March 23, 2011, 03:40PM
585 views
1 comment
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Midwife Yatra
Midwives of the world could join together in a Midwife Yatra (pilgrimage) to provide maternal healthcare in remote villages
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March 17, 2011, 04:05AM
459 views
4 comments
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QR code amulet triggers timed maternal health calls to mom's phone
A QR code amulet issued to the mom upon conception triggers delivery of timed maternal health calls to the mom's phone.
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March 16, 2011, 11:59PM
663 views
4 comments
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Use Backpackers to Deliver Birth Kits to Remote Villages
Enlist backpackers to deliver birth kits to remote villages
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March 15, 2011, 04:33PM
516 views
4 comments
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Portable Maternal Health Video Library for Community Health Workers
Make a portable maternal health medical video library available to CHWs preloaded on mobile phones or on a SD card.
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February 25, 2011, 03:00PM
2432 views
18 comments
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"Yo-Mama" Iron and Folic Acid Fortified Yogurt for Pregnant Moms
A "Yo-Mama" iron and folic acid fortified yogurt could be locally produced and distributed to pregnant moms by "Yogurt Mom" micro businesses.
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February 22, 2011, 04:03AM
1209 views
3 comments
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Free Midwife Hotline
A free 24/7 hotline operated by volunteer midwives and doulas
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February 22, 2011, 03:27AM
1592 views
12 comments
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Yogurt Mamas
The Western Heads East project is working to establish probiotic yogurt programs in Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda.
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February 20, 2011, 10:03PM
583 views
0 comments
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ChildLine Counselling Service
ChildLine is a counselling service for children and young people. How can we adapt it to improve maternal health?
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February 14, 2011, 06:17PM
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Yo-Mom! Iron-fortified Yogurt for Pregnant Moms
Essential micro-nutrients like iron and folic acid for pregnant moms could be delivered via fortified yogurt in Grameen Danone fashion.
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February 13, 2011, 01:56AM
885 views
4 comments
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Lokarpit Voice
Lokarpit Voice is a voice message forum to connect rural communities with medical professionals
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February 06, 2011, 02:44AM
738 views
3 comments
2 applause |
AI Doctor in a Phone
Put an ELIZA-like medical diagnosis tool on every phone. Even doctors are using tools like the Isabel Diagnosis Checklist!
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February 02, 2011, 02:41PM
689 views
0 comments
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Jay Parkinson: ReDesiging Healthcare
Jay Parkinson, the hipster doctor from Brooklyn, performs radical surgery on Healthcare to make it better
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February 02, 2011, 06:10AM
906 views
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Digital Green: Instructional videos that walk the talk
Digital Green is an organization that seeks to disseminate targeted agricultural information to small and marginal farmers in India through digital video
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February 01, 2011, 04:22PM
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Kentaro Toyama: Putting People First
Kentaro Toyama provides a cautionary tale about techno-optimism
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January 31, 2011, 08:34PM
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Portable Medical Video Library for CHWs
A Portable Medical Video Library available to CHWs on a SD card, via online download or on a rugged, waterproof, solar powered phone.
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January 31, 2011, 01:35PM
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Grameen Danone: slipping in vitamins with kid's daily yogurt
Slip in vitamins with the kid's daily yogurt!
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January 30, 2011, 02:38PM
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HealCam: Chatroulette for Heathcare!
HealCam allows you to video chat with others having the same medical condition as yours.
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January 30, 2011, 02:02AM
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Gaetano Borriello: Personalizing Public Health
Gaetano Borriello leads the Open Data Kit project (http://opendatakit.org) that seeks to develop a suite of mobile tools for community health workers in East Africa to use in both clinic and home-visit settings.
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January 27, 2011, 05:54PM
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Melinda Gates on Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health in India
Melinda Gates narrates her trip to visit with new mothers in remote locations in India, and learns about lifesaving social innovation taking place there.
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January 26, 2011, 04:04PM
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Real Time Human Embryo Simulator
Expectant mothers can type in the nearest date of conception and then watch this online simulation of an embryo change and develop in real-time synchronization of their real pregancy.
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January 25, 2011, 04:27PM
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IKEA-style manuals for Pregnancy
IKEA-style manuals for Pregnancy can overcome the language barrier and localization costs for providing critical healthcare information!
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January 24, 2011, 06:18PM
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Deploy a Midwife "Cloud" using Skype
There are many midwifes and doctors with the willingness to help mothers using Telemedicine. Let's make it easy to deploy this resource to save lives and forge global connections.
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January 24, 2011, 05:56PM
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The Wisdom of a Janitor
How can we empower Janitors? By first recognizing their practical wisdom and connecting potential
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December 22, 2010, 04:32PM
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Ecological Toilets + Compost or Biogas + Networked Entrepreneurs = Everybody Wins
The knowledge and networks needed to quickly raise the quality of sanitation and jump-start eco-friendly businesses have reached critical mass. Let's leverage best practices from all over the globe to restore dignity to a core human need.
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December 14, 2010, 03:21AM
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EcoSan Ecological Toilets
EcoSan Ecological Toilets are a great way to conserve water while enriching soil fertility and encouraging local entrepreneurship.
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December 11, 2010, 10:14PM
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Portable Privacy Screen
People still go out into open spaces to poop. Taking along a portable privacy screen might establish a modicum of dignity.
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December 09, 2010, 04:37AM
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How can we initiate compassionate conversations with the elderly?
What if the elderly wore a photo button of themselves as young kids? This might break the ice with everybody and remind the currently young of how they would like to be treated in THEIR old age:)
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November 23, 2010, 11:50PM
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How can we help spread adoption of efficient methods of growing food locally?
Highly efficient methods of growing food locally, like sub-irrigated planters, drip irrigation and simplified hydroponics, already exist and enjoy grass roots adoption. The challenge is to help spread these practices to people who need them the most.
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November 23, 2010, 04:10AM
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The Potty Project
Access to dignified sanitation is a basic human right. The Potty Project is a great inspiration on the path to making this happen
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November 18, 2010, 11:38PM
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Deploy Moldering Privies to Make Gold out of Human Waste
Moldering Privies are the most cost effective and eco-friendly solution to human waste disposal
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November 18, 2010, 05:15AM
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Let the Elderly wear Photo Buttons of themselves as Kids
Let the Elderly wear Photo Buttons of themselves as Kids
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November 11, 2010, 07:10PM
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Spreading Efficient Methods of Growing Food Locally
In an unstable world, efficiently growing food locally provides a true oasis of security.
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November 09, 2010, 06:41PM
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An Innovation Academy for Kid Entrepreneurs
India is awash in kid entrepreneurs. Help them succeed better using the IDEO HCD toolkit or the Stanford d.school Design Thinking Workshop as a foundational curriculum. Connect them to each other with the internet and used smart-phones. Let them teach other kids by organizing their own TEDx conference.
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September 02, 2010, 11:17AM
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Let Kids Grow their own Veggie this Year
Kids grow their own veggie this year using a Sub-Irrigated Planter (SIP) that they make themselves from two 5-gallon food-grade buckets
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September 02, 2010, 10:11AM
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Start an Innovation Academy for Kids using IDEO's HCD Toolkit
Start an Innovation Academy for Kids using IDEO's HCD Toolkit
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August 16, 2010, 06:03AM
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FAO Toolkit for Setting up and Running a School Garden
Use the excellent FAO Toolkit for Setting up and Running a School Garden
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August 16, 2010, 05:18AM
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Learn to be a Gardener with Alan Titchmarsh
Learn to be a Gardener with Alan Titchmarsh's delightful online course.
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August 16, 2010, 01:23AM
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Grandparents are the Best Learning Tools
Grandparents are the best learning tools! Enlist them systematically to mentor small groups of children.
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August 15, 2010, 04:07AM
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Help Kid Entrepreneurs
India is awash in Kid Entrepreneurs. Help them succeed better. Connect them with each other. Let them teach other kids.
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August 10, 2010, 06:34AM
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Equip Kids with Plant Identification 'Tricorders'
Equipping kids with a plant identification 'tricorder' will exponentially increase their involvement with all aspects of food production and consumption.
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August 10, 2010, 05:00AM
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Teach for India
Teach for India: Shaheen Mistry is already doing what needs to be done - join her if you can.
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August 10, 2010, 04:00AM
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Let Kids make Seedballs and regreen the Landscape
Kids make Seedballs and regreen the Landscape just like 'The Man who Planted Trees'
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August 09, 2010, 03:15PM
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TEDx for Kids
Let kids organize their own TEDx conference
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August 06, 2010, 05:11PM
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Stick the Internet into Walls Everywhere
Sugata Mitra stuck internet-enabled computers into walls in India's slums. The "illiterate" kids browsed the web to educate themselves.
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August 02, 2010, 10:59PM
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Let Kids Grow their own Vegetable this Year
Kids grow their own Vegetable this year using a Sub-Irrigated Planter they make from two 5-gallon buckets
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August 02, 2010, 10:04PM
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