Category Archives: Technology

The Power of Writing in Organizations

Posted on September 24, 2012 by

I just read this great interview/article by Anne-Laure Fayard, an assistant professor of management at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, and a student of the interactions between people and technology in organizations. (From the WhatIf?! blog). Fayard studies … Continue reading →

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Open for Business: The Quest to Create Shared Value in Burma

Posted on August 8, 2012 by

“So today we say to American business: Invest in Burma,” Secretary Clinton proclaimed in May, within a month of opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi’s taking of office after her parliamentary election victory last April. Driven by vast reserves of … Continue reading →

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New Discovery… Google Public Data!

Posted on July 29, 2012 by

I am writing an article on Myanmar and how social enterprise can *hopefully* ease some of the socio-political growing pains the country is going to go through as its borders open up to foreign investment. I found this awesome tool … Continue reading →

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Untangling data, untangling complexity

Posted on July 24, 2012 by

“The internet is the nervous system for an organism that is in the process of being born,” says John Perry Barlow, founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in talking about “vibrant data.” I was introduced to Intel’s Vibrant Data project … Continue reading →

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Big Data – A new human centric design tool?

Posted on July 12, 2012 by

I love the UN Global Pulse. In a recent report “Big Data for Development,” the organization chronicles how Big Data—call logs, mobile-banking transactions, online user-generated content such as blog posts and Tweets, online searches, satellite images, etc.— can be turned into actionable information. … Continue reading →

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How Africa Tweets

Posted on January 27, 2012 by

This is a really fascinating data visualization from the Guardian’s Data Blog. (Thanks to UN Global Pulse for tweeting this). I would love to know if there are correlations between twitter + social media usage and political activity.

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Technology Meets Modern Day Slavery

Posted on January 6, 2012 by

Could you have possibly imagined that there are 30 million slaves in the world today, more than any other point in human history? Slavery is not limited to the brothels of Thailand or Cambodia, either. A 2011 CNN article estimated that there are … Continue reading →

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