Category: World View
Digital Native Uprising
There was a bit of a buzz in the news this week about Don Tapscott’s new book “Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing the World“. If you’re a bit of a podcast addict like me, there’s an...
Using Constraint to Design for Innovation
Ethan Zuckerman has been writing about Innovating from Constraint in which he offers seven rules that “appear to help explain how (some) developing world innovation proceeds”. This post was riffed on beautifully by Design in Africa prompting Ethan to produce...
The Risky Philanthropist
Last week I attended the MobileActive08 conference in Johannesburg which I have to say is one of the better conferences I have attended in a while. Partly because of the turn-out of remarkable people, partly because of the non-talking-heads format...
Top Five Ted Talks
At the Shuttleworth Foundation we have a now reasonably well-established tradition of gathering together every Tuesday at lunch to watch a Ted Talk. I borrowed this idea from Vera Franz of the Open Society Institute and with only a few...