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Consommation collaborative : "garçons, un café !" » OWNI, News, Augmented - 0 views

  • Comment un Américain qui cherchait à pouvoir utiliser sa carte Starbucks sur ses deux téléphones a créé une API collaborative pour permettre aux gens de se payer des cafés les uns aux autres
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Technology Is Not the Answer - James Fallows - Technology - The Atlantic - 0 views

  • In project after project, the lesson was the same: information technology amplified the intent and capacity of human and institutional stakeholders, but it didn't substitute for their deficiencies. If we collaborated with a self-confident community or a competent non-profit, things went well. But, if we worked with a corrupt organization or an indifferent group, no amount of well-designed technology was helpful. Ironically, although we looked to technology to attain large-scale impact into places where circumstances were most dire, technology by itself was unable to improve situations where well-intentioned competence was absent. What mattered most was individual and institutional intent and capacity.
  • the theory of technology-as-amplifier explains why: As a society, we haven't been so intent on eradicating poverty, as much as perhaps, on ever cleverer ways to guide us to the nearest cup of coffee. The technology is incredible, but our intent is not there.
  • It's not just electronic technologies that we place undue faith in. We also expect too much from other technologies, institutions, policies and systems, or "TIPS" to coin an acronym. Like the tips of icebergs, TIPS are the most visible part of cultural change and public policy, but they are dependent on the much more significant, if invisible, bulk of individual and societal intent and capacity. Current events are constant reminders of this.
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  • I'm not saying that TIPS aren't important. Technologies can enrich lives; democracy can be preferable to dictatorship; and market capitalism can be an equitable economic engine, no doubt. But, we fetishize technocratic devices and forget that it's our finger on the "on" switch and our hands at the controls. Something other than TIPS still demands attention -- something I've so far called good "intent and capacity," and what in future posts I'll call virtue. 
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    In project after project, the lesson was the same: information technology amplified the intent and capacity of human and institutional stakeholders, but it didn't substitute for their deficiencies. If we collaborated with a self-confident community or a competent non-profit, things went well. But, if we worked with a corrupt organization or an indifferent group, no amount of well-designed technology was helpful. Ironically, although we looked to technology to attain large-scale impact into places where circumstances were most dire, technology by itself was unable to improve situations where well-intentioned competence was absent. What mattered most was individual and institutional intent and capacity.
Marc Botte

New York Times, in Collaboration with WNYC Radio, Launches SchoolBook, an Interactive E... - 1 views

  • Web site of news, data and conversation about schools in New York City on September 7
  • Access to SchoolBook will be free and exempt from The Times’s digital subscriptions
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Tunisie : Une carte en ligne collaborative pour surveiller les élections · Gl... - 0 views

  • L'Instance  Supérieure Indépendante pour les Élections en Tunisie a mis en place une carte collaborative en ligne pour surveiller le déroulement du scrutin en Tunisie, en français et en arabe. Les citoyens tunisiens sont encouragés à signaler les irrégularités dont ils peuvent être témoins durant le scrutin qui a lieu aujourd'hui 23 octobre en Tunisie. La carte est également accessible depuis la  page d'accueil de l'Instance des élections.
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GovernanceNow.com | Kho-kho model of innovation: techpedia.in - 0 views

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    A website of tech ideas whose time has come promotes collaborative research
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AkiraChix - 0 views

shared by francispisani on 18 Aug 11 - Cached
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    This is a group for ladies with interest in Information Technology. Right now we are based in Kenya but we intend to spread our wings to all corners of the world. The aim of this forum is: to empower the gal tech community in Kenyato use the Akira Chix to reach out to other gals in community and encourage them to pursue careers in the field of technologyto integrate use of technology in solving life's problemsto facilitate collaboration and communication among the tech galzto inspire gals to be transformational leadersto enlighten the community on the technology sphereto motivate the gal community to continue in their technology development
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The Emerging Startup Culture In Cairo Will Blow You Away - 0 views

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    At the end of the week, there was a business competition.The four winning companies were: Bey2ollak - An iPhone app that provides live user-generated reports of traffic conditions on the streets of Cairo. It already has more than 50,000 subscribers and a partnership with Vodafone -- one of the largest mobile phone operators in Egypt. Inkezny (translation: rescue me) - An iPhone app enabling travelers to make emergency calls in any location in the world without having to know the local emergency phone number, as well as seeing GPS directions to and phone numbers for the nearest hospitals  Crowdit - A digital collaborative storytelling platform using real-time pictures, video, and social media reports to reinvent the way stories are told and shared online SuperMama.me - The iVillage of the Middle East, creating a community of mothers designed to connect and empower the women of the Middle East/North Africa region
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Crisis Mappers Net - THE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF CRISIS MAPPERS - 0 views

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    The International Network of Crisis Mappers is the largest and most active international community of experts, practitioners, policymakers, technologists, researchers, journalists, scholars, hackers and skilled volunteers engaged at the intersection between humanitarian crises, technology and crisis mapping. The Crisis Mappers Network was launched by 100 Crisis Mappers at the first International Conference on Crisis Mapping in 2009. As the world's premier crisis mapping hub, the Network catalyzes communication and collaboration between and among crisis mappers with the purpose of advancing the study and application of crisis mapping worldwide. 
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AltCity | AltCity media / tech / social impact collaboration space - 0 views

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    ((from another story)) Ali Ghamloush, is leading a citizen journalism effort in Beirut, Lebanon. He co-founded AltCity, a social venture aimed at expanding access to tools, resources and spaces for independent publishers, activists and tech entrepreneurs
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