Developing country – Insight Sciences

How to feed the world with insects

May 18, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

A Grand Plan For Feeding The World With Insects
BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com

We need more protein for the developing world, but we really don’t need to be raising more livestock. The solution might be buzzing around your head right now.

How do you feed 9 and half billion people without destroying the planet? Accord…

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South African ‘Fly Factory’ Highlights Insects as Food: Bugs for Livestock (scienceworldreport.com)
UN urges world to eat more insects (bbc.co.uk)
Attention entrepreneurs: Your livestock business is growing – but only in Africa and other developing regions (ilri.org)
UN says bugs are food of the future (bigpondnews.com)
Drylands of the developing world: New livestock and crop research program launched (drbausman.wordpress.com)

How One Designer Went From Designing Remote Controls To Cook Stoves

January 20, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

How One Designer Went From Designing Remote Controls To Cook Stoves
BY RACHAEL CHONG, fastcoexist.com

Heather Fleming’s Catapult Designs does innovative product design—but for the developing world.

Editor’s Note

This is the latest profile in Catchafire’s Generosity Series, a multi-month celebration and investigation of bold…

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How One Designer Went From Designing Remote Controls To Cook Stoves (fastcoexist.com)
INFRA, An Infrared TV Made of Old Remote Controls (laughingsquid.com)
Abracadabra Remote Controlling – Use Your Fingers to Remote Control with the New Gesture Recognition (TrendHunter.com) (trendhunter.com)
How One Designer Went From Designing Remote Controls To Cook Stoves (catchafire.org)
TV Volume Loudness Guard using Arduino (instructables.com)
New Stoves in Stock at WoodburnerWorld (prweb.com)
Touchless Remote Controls – The eyeSight Gesture-Based System Gives Control Without Physical Contact (TrendHunter.com) (trendhunter.com)
How One Designer Went From Designing Remote Controls To Cook Stoves (fastcoexist.com)
Indian Institute of Science (IISc) develops cook stove that uses agricultural waste as fuel (panchabuta.com)

Technology Is Useless If It Doesn’t Address a Human Need

November 25, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata

Technology Is Useless If It Doesn’t Address A Human Need
BY MEAGAN FALLONE, fastcoexist.com

Facebook is great for checking out photos of your exes and all, but for social innovators working in the developing world, there’s no point to new technologies unless they make life better for the people they’re trying to help.

Editor’s Note

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Mobile and its role in the Developing World discussed at Mediatel conference (mobileinthedevelopingworld.wordpress.com)
Livestock: The Good, the Bad, and the Facts (foodpolicyforthought.wordpress.com)
The 4 Ideas That Melinda Gates Thinks Are Changing The World (fastcoexist.com)
Peter Thiel on Development In The Future (33rdsquare.com)

Ushahidi :: Crowdsourcing Crisis Information (FOSS)

December 11, 2009 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management

via www.ushahidi.com

My friend Bill told me about this company which uses crowdsourcing to address crisis situations in developing countries.

Ushahidi at Five (ushahidi.com)
Why Ushahidi Should Embrace Open Data (irevolution.net)
5 Innovative Ways to Crowdsource Better Governance (wamda.com)
Kenyan election bloggers become cyber-activism pioneers (rawstory.com)
Jakarta Floods – Social Media Landscape in Indonesia – January 2013 (slideshare.net)
How the Internet Changes Human Geography (part 3 of 3) (thehumangeo.com)

PolyTherics – enabling better biopharmaceuticals

August 24, 2007 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

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PolyTherics – enabling better biopharmaceuticals – PolyTherics.

This company is attempting to put the drug development process into an open source model so that poor people in developing countries can actually afford to get drugs. They were highlight in Business 2.0‘s list of Disrupters.

Inspiration Biopharmaceuticals announces new global commercialization deals with Ipsen (medcitynews.com)
Gallus BioPharmaceuticals Announces Collaboration Agreement with… (biotechblog.com)
Gallus BioPharmaceuticals Announces Collaboration Agreement with Natrix Separations Inc. (prweb.com)
PolyMedix using NIH grant to develop malaria treatments (bizjournals.com)
Gilead: A Stock For The Future (seekingalpha.com)
KwaraPoly expels 45 students over exam malpractice (vanguardngr.com)
Poly and Paganism (theamazonchick.wordpress.com)
Just received my Poly Evolver..so I made a track! (gearslutz.com)
Korg Mono/Poly Questions (gearslutz.com)
Facilitating Success For Follow On Biologics, 24-25 September 2012, London, UK (medicalnewstoday.com)

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