PopTech 2009 Social Innovation Fellow Josh Nesbit from PopTech on Vimeo.
A Case for Open Data in Transit from Streetfilms on Vimeo.
township Mom is a pilot project focused on:
the establishment of an open platform enabling the use and publication of open data.
the application of social production process to identify appropriate development services for mothers in the townships of Africa.
Stakeholders:
Moms living in the townships
Developers and social entrepreneurs looking to address social issues
Civic organisations looking to make the [...]
Os processes for_social_entrepreneurs
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OSM 2008: A Year of Edits from ItoWorld on Vimeo.
I’ve recently started following the database technology called FluidINFO.
FluidINFO is an openly writeable shared database.
Data can be dynamically organised, shared, combined, augmented and searched.
FluidINFO is conceptually simple:
Objects represent things
Tags describe data related to an object (and can optionally have a value)
Namespaces organise related tags
Permissions control who can act on what namespace, tag or value
This makes [...]
Over the weekend I attended the AID Information Challenge. The event was held at the Guardian in London and was part of the Guardian Open Platform. I was fortunate enough to meet the AKVO team.
Thomass Bjelkemann-Pettersson presented an overview of the organisation.
We create and share internet and mobile phone tools that for the first time [...]
