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After huge successes at the helm of Obama's Open Government Initiative, Professor Beth Simone Noveck visits the RSA to outline a profound new vision of democracy one that is rooted in the knowledge and know-how of everyday people.
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Portland Development Commission (PDC) talks with four minority entrepreneurs about the challenges they face when trying to grow a technology based business in Portland.
Featuring:
Andres Montgomery, Dreem Digital
James Pritchett, Glance ID
Dwayne Johnson, Ideal Portland
Ben Berry, AirShip Technologies
Patrick Quinton, Portland Development Commission
Video produced by John Cárdenas at the Portland Development Commission and Published on Nov 28, 2012
Most of the world still lacks adequate technology which hurts business growth, slows aid to disaster victims, and keeps people from communicating with each other. NetHope is the bridge across the technology gap. We bring together the world's leading humanitarian groups and high tech companies in a common cause, which multiplies the power of these groups. The narrator is Frank Schott, Global Program Director at NetHope.
Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that's only the first step in a project to write an instruction set for an entire self-sustaining village (starting cost: $10,000). April 2011.
Open Source Ecology Website is here.
TED takes a look at health and medicine with a conference each year. The 2013 TEDMed conference is April 16-19 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Their YouTube channel features nearly 200 videos from previous conferences.
At TEDMED, Eric Dishman makes a bold argument: The US health care system is like computing circa 1959, tethered to big, unwieldy central systems: hospitals, doctors, nursing homes. As our aging population booms, it's imperative, he says, to create personal, networked, home-based health care for all. Eric Dishman is an Intel Fellow and director of health innovation and policy for Intel's Digital Health Group.
Author of WeThink Charles Leadbeater talks about how web communities are revisiting older, more traditional forms of order.
CNBC - 09.12.2009 - Interview with Tom Knutzen CEO of Danisco, a Denmark company that develops and produces food ingredients, enzymes, and bio-based solutions. He discusses opportunities to invest in technology solutions with solid businss plans and with support from politicians in terms of time horizons and even a carbon tax. All part of the need to combat climate change. Briefly discusses need for support of their natural product designed to replace the rubber coming out of rain forests and from fossil fuel. Not sure it can be cost-competitive, a tax on carbon would make it easier.
IBMLabs — May 05, 2010 — IBM launches multi-year research effort to model and simulate factors surrounding the health of the individual, community, and the planet. Visit asmarterplanet.com for more information on this and other projects. Objective is better decisions made on understanding of a very complex world actually works, rather than having systems in isolation.
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