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Woody Evans

Disaster Relief and Appropriate Tech Metadata

Problem: there's no single readily consult-able library for metadata ontologies related to disaster relief, aid work, and appropriate tra...

Started by Woody Evans

3 Jan 2
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Woody Evans

SODIS, water, sunlight, GLOBOVO

a few scattered water related notions,, solar water disinfection. 'SODIS' site has great info. sunlight, uv, 6 hrs kills most bad bugs. ...

Started by Woody Evans

0 Dec. 4, 2008
Woody Evans

Library in a Box

Hexayurts, walls printed with information, is dropped in pallets with building instructions and tape. The shelter is constructed, and the...

Started by Woody Evans

8 Dec. 4, 2008
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Woody Evans

cultural communication / not democracy / tribal

This is really rough. Democracy doesn't work in tribal societies. Would confederacy? The key: multicameral bodies which check/balance eac...

Started by Woody Evans

1 Nov. 30, 2008
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Woody Evans

global broadband, o3b

from STAR-TIDES group (Vinay, you posted this there, I'm reposting here): --- http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/09/10/0249214.shtml "Acco...

Started by Woody Evans

1 Sep. 12, 2008
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Spencer

Natural talent vs. Learned Ability

Recently at work we all had to take the Predictive Index test. It's really neat and has little to no face value, but produces some accura...

Started by Spencer

0 Aug. 22, 2008
Woody Evans

nutrition and 'fugees

How do refugees (of weather disasters, of wars,) get information about sources of food once they're in a new host country? What does the...

Started by Woody Evans

1 Aug. 22, 2008
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Derek

Building Burma's digital front line

I thought this article might be of interest to the group. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7481914.stm From the article: "It is o...

Started by Derek

1 Jul. 26, 2008
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Woody Evans

Cell Phones, Android, and Poverty

I wonder if Google's Android will work like (we might hope) the OLPC project will, to give the power to write the code for the info machi...

Started by Woody Evans

1 Jul. 9, 2008
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