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For those of you who haven't met Buffy B, stop on over and see her work and meet her. She is a good gamer & filmmaker, a great friend, and an even better person.
First of all, kudos to a job well done to the World Bank Institute, the game developers/writers/administrators, and everyone else involved in putting together Evoke and Season 1. I don't know if that can be said enough. Kudos as well to the thousands of people that have made Evoke Evoke.
Grounded in such a great beginning, below are ideas for the future, the first of which is what I would be most excited about:
Thanks in part to Nike, this video has seemingly brought my time here on Urgent Evoke full circle, which perhaps is only appropriate coming on a day that celebrates women and the circle of life. You see, the circle for me…
Identify a crisis you might face locally in the future and what different kinds of data you would track and which information and resources could the Ushahidi platform help you share.
To focus on the potential future crisis identified with my dark site, situations involving "active shooters" and "active threats" are a…
Last year about this time an email was sent to all associates of the university at which I work, stating:
"Because of ongoing concerns about the possibility of spreading the flu virus, students receiving degrees and their families should not shake hands at Commencement if they have symptoms of an upper respiratory infection such as fever and cough."
Reading this, I had to laugh. The irony was killing me. The university, along…
Living knowledge -- its strength and vulnerability share the same beauty: it is not set in stone. Traditionally, this is not a favorable trait--ages of wisdom can be wiped away in the matter of a generation. At times, though, this vulnerability…
It's 2084. I am 100, and the Simpsons are in their 94th season (would be 95th if it wasn't for the animated character strike of 2063...how they held out on being drawn, I will never know). I do know one thing, though, and that is I hope my life has spoken volumes more than anything I can possibly say. In particular, how to live life in meditation.
On May 12 I will be traveling with my good friend Stephanie to see the Dalai Lama teach from the Heart Sutra in Bloomington, Indiana. With tickets for each session running $30 apiece, plus service and transaction fees totaling another ~$25, the cost by no means breaks the bank but is certainly more than mere chump change. At any rate, I imagine the majority in attendance will be affluent, upper/middle class (or so has… Continue
SimCity 2000. It was the wave of the future. Microwave future, that is. Though I wouldn't understand how the word "microwave" applied till years later, the incorporation of a satellite microwave power plant in the 1990's computer game changed my life growing up.
Too strong of words for a utility essentially the equivalent of a 4x4 piece of virtual terrain? Perhaps. But the…
"Instead of providing gamers with better and more immersive alternatives to reality, I want all of us to become responsible for providing the world with a better and more immersive reality."
"Yes, a second green revolution is indeed very essential -- the very need of the hour. But it should not be the same kind of green revolution that the first was."
- P.C. Kesavan -
Food security to me is not just if we have food, but…
"Understand by observing the environment, infrastructure, culture and lives of people by being there."
I find this especially valuable regarding the foreign affairs of nations and corporations. The perpetuation of a lot of suffering, conflict, and wars has come at the hands of not just ignorance but alternative interests. While this does not specifically apply to innovation itself, it does speak…
