Website dedicated to showcasing African ingenuity.
'An innovation lab for technologies designed to improve community resilience and save lives through early disease detection and rapid disaster response.'
Wesite designed to help nonprofits use social web tools to change the world.
Mobile application framework for rural developing communities. CAM has been used to track accounts in microfinance schemes and to facilitate local trading.
"Inhabitat.com is a weblog devoted to the future of design, tracking the innovations in technology, practices and materials that are pushing architecture and home design towards a smarter and more sustainable future."
"In a simple, rugged twist on the gas-fired refrigerator, a prototype gadget uses heat from fire to create a cheap source of cooling."
Article describing the development of The Fly, a new "toy" from LeapFrog that seeks to change the input/output paradigm for computing.
Overview and timeline of ad hoc coordination in developing PeopleFinder and other tools for supporting linking and recovery efforts fro Hurricane Katrina.
Blog dialogue on proposals to "bring together the best of the web — software, hardware, infrastructure, media, money — to start to gather around needs and solutions" for disaster recovery.
"A hospital doctor in the poor rural area around the Mekong Delta in Vietnam has used his PC and some cheap parts to create a homemade endoscope".
