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PopTech 2009 Social Innovation Fellow Josh Nesbit

mark herringer — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:10:19 +0000

PopTech 2009 Social Innovation Fellow Josh Nesbit from PopTech on Vimeo.

Harnessing Social production

mark herringer — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:37:42 +0000

A Case for Open Data in Transit from Streetfilms on Vimeo.

Open platform development

mark herringer — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:12:47 +0000

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 process for social entrepreneurs

mark herringer — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 13:13:22 +0000

Os processes for_social_entrepreneurs View more presentations from mangamonk.

Transparent and verifiable elections

mark herringer — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:34:22 +0000

I’ve just watched David Bismark’s presentation on Ted and wonder which African country is going to use this method first? It solves a number of vital issues. By blending a sophisticated ballot paper, digital scanners, 2D bar-codes and computers a process is created that enables transparent and verifiable elections. 1) Voter intimidation If you’re standing in a voting [...]

OSM 2008: A Year of Edits

mark herringer — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:12:30 +0000

OSM 2008: A Year of Edits from ItoWorld on Vimeo.

Sharing data to improve social business

mark herringer — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 06:01:29 +0000

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 [...]

Akvo.org – the open source for water and sanitation

mark herringer — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:20:00 +0000

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 [...]

Millenium development goals

mark herringer — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:00:47 +0000

GOAL 1:ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY & HUNGER

Target 1: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day

Target 2: Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people

Target 3: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

GOAL 2:ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION

Target [...]

Yochai Benkler: open-source economics

mark herringer — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:49:07 +0000

The Emergence of the Networked Information Economy

The most advanced economies in the world today have made two parallel shifts that, paradoxically, make possible a significant attenuation (loss of strength) of the limitations that market-based production places on the pursuit of the political values central to liberal societies.

The first move, in the making for more than [...]