August 2010
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“Fail fast, fail cheap, fail forward.”
– Premal Shah, President of Kiva
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Human networks for social good →
Great article on how networks of local agents can help social enterprises.
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Mosquito netting →
I wanted to create awareness Malaria in third world countries, one of the UN Millennium Development Goals. I decided to look into mosquito netting as a prevention solution for malaria. Mosquito netting is the cheapest and most effective way to reduce the risk of malaria for people in third world countries. For this project I created three pieces, an informational graphic, a statistical graphic...
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“You can not think about development without science. Nature is no longer...”
– Dr. Belay Begashaw, MDG Centre
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The Nawsa Mad System (Aswan Dam backwards) →
Replicating the Functions of the Aswan Dam on Two Acre Farms
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http://boxedwaterisbetter.com/ →
Part sustainable water company, part art project, part philanthropic project, and completely curious. Boxed Water Is Better, is a boxed water company.
Not sure I understand the concept behind Boxed Water is Better, but the design is seriously nice!
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“Latrines are fascinating. No one wants to read about it — it’s one of the...”
– Bill Gates on the importance of efficient latrines in the future.
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http://iumap.org/ →
The Ayllu team developed iuMAP in response to what they saw as a lack of centralized information, a place where one could find easily digestible and “critical information to help the social enterprise community learn from successes, failures and challenges, so that decisions can be made more easily, quickly, and cheaply.”
(via Worldchanging.com)
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“What the hell did we do to deserve this?”
– BP CEO Tony Hayward, speaking to fellow executives in London about the Gulf oil spill disaster, May 2, 2010
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Yes, it’s sad living in Kibera but you should at... →
I love the logic behind this note, it’s full of sense. Education, slum life and group loans, all the ingredients of a development related best-seller!
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Open Ideo →
Damn cool new platform for collaborative design. Not many challenges online yet, but it’s a brilliant idea (IDEO, why am I not surprised!?).
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“The devastation by the floods is enormous, and some towns have been completely...”
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Josep Prior Tio, MSF’s field coordinator, speaks about the worst flooding that Pakistan has experienced in 80 years.
Learn more about how MSF is getting involved.
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Mosquito killer →
I hate mosquitoes and definitely have no pity for them. This Taiwanese woman kills 4 million of them and get 3000$ in cash, I say kudos!
The contest was organized by Imbictus International, a manufacturer of ‘environmentally friendly’ mosquito-traps, which subdue the bloodsuckers without harmful chemicals.
To achieve this record, Yuyen managed to capture about 90 mosquitoes every...