Updates: Gaming Ushahidi, Governing Braddock, GSBI Cohort 2010, and Chimpanzees

Kristen Taylor ( Bio  /   Posts )  |  Tuesday, April 13, 2010 UTC

A few updates from the PopTech network in the past week:

Ushahidi’s Patrick Meier (PopTech Social Innovation Fellows Erik Hersman and Ory Okolloh are Director of Operations and Executive Director of Ushahidi, respectively) on information vandalism.

Read the great comment thread and watch video from the post:

(Ushahidi is also being used to monitor forests in Italy (video). Perhaps we are one step closer to hearing the sounds when trees fall…)

Mayor John Fetterman, who spoke at PopTech 2009 about the challenges of leading his town of Braddock, Pennsylvania, appeared on PBS’s NOW last Friday.

PopTech Social Innovation Fellow and FrontlineSMS creator Ken Banks was quoted in a Sunday New York Times article:

Ken Banks, a British entrepreneur who works in Africa and developed FrontlineSMS, a text-messaging service for aid groups, put it this way: “There’s often a tendency in the West to approach things the wrong way round, so we end up with solutions looking for a problem, or we build things just because we can.”

 

The Santa Clara University Global Social Benefit Incubator 2010 Cohort includes three PopTech Fellows: Jason Aramburu of re:char, Nigel Waller of Movirtu, and Tevis Howard of Komaza—neat group of projects and people that will meet for a few weeks this August.

PopTech speaker Erica Williams blogged “Debunking the Millenials’ Work Ethic ‘Problem’” for Harvard Business Review (watch her 2009 PopTech talk on youth politics).

Three wild chimpanzee babies have been born in six months, cause for hope at Wildlife Direct, an organization directed by PopTech Social Innovation Fellow Paula Kahumbu.

A few days are left before the April 16th deadline for an Open Framework workshop in Breda with PopTech speaker Zach Lieberman (“Artistic practice is a form of R&D for humanity,” he told PopTech 2009).

And we find these folded solar panels interesting.

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